Show martha luck a maid in a con hotel was airing a mattress on which was printed the trade trademark mar mark kRest rest easy when the railing on the veranda 15 fiet feet above a gravel driveway broke miss luck lived up to her name and was fortunate enough to fall upon the mattress this saved her life she was only slightly slight li scratched july 25 has been designated by new york suffragists as telo tele phone day every suffragist in in the state is expected to telephone to two men requesting their support for the suffrage cause the governors of several odthe of the eastern states will be im por tuned by telephone to lend lead their aid to the cause and the mayors of new york and san francisco will lie be called upon to deliver short speeches by telephone traveling in in a regulation prairie schooner a party of suf recently made a mile pilgrimage through the historic regions of southern maryland visiting the home of margaret brent who years ago gave voice to the first equal suffrage plea when she asked for place and voyce in the colonial assent assembly the schooner has interned inter ne d and the members of the cre crew w have returned to their homes when she found that the two brothers of her deceased husband had provided what she donsi considered def a cheap coffin and a claih gravenor grave for his burial mrs Fra frances manwiller Man of reading pa took charge of the body and had the funeral postponed the macwil lers had not been living together but the judge to whom she complained decided that the widow is s the proper person to make afi the e funeral arrangements and she did di i so according to her own ideas although past 21 years of age miss carlyle of berkeley calif never has had a glimpse of the world about her until a few days ago when her sight was restored by a delicate provided for by a wealthy woman who by an operation had the sight restored to her eyes sightless from birth this woman has shown her gratitude by furnishing money to restore sight to youn young ly women afflicted as she was miss carlyle aswell is well educated but is is unable to read anything except the raised letters printed for the blind A circular recently issued by the childrens bureau declares that toot hinL is so dangerous to a babas health as wrong feeding and that nothing is so im important to his healthy development as proper feeding cakes candy doughnuts pastry griddle cakes fresh bread syrup molasses pork or any kind of tough meat bananas overripe fruits pickles tea coffee beer of tidbits frem the family table should n not i at be given to tg babies during the hot weather the circular advises municipal extravagance in many large cities of the country app appears earst to a be on the increase and in in at least one case it has resul jq iEe disastrously the taxpayers of nashville tenn tenh h have V e made a 1 R for the appointment or of a receiver to carry on the cites affairs an attempt was made to have the application dismissed but the courts refused to do so in a fiddlers fidd lers contest recently conducted son ducted at decatur ill III in which such pieces as money musk Kings King THead old zip coon rory OM dope oora leather breeches and arkansas traveler wc verc c rendered the prize for the best old fid adler went to lyman drake who played an old time composition entitled hell on the wa wabash b agh prizes es were also given for long distance fiddling for the tallest fiddler and for the best mouth organ performance in which the performer stood on his head extreme heat beat has marked recent cen weather conditions in alaska whose like has been hitherto unknown in that country chesun shining at this time of the year 20 out oui of the 24 hours za ca caused used thermometers to register 90 degrees in afie shade while street thermometers ran up to bumper crops of fruits and vegetables are promised the winner of a lorig long name con contest test held field by post office clerks at duquoin ill recently is is demetrious met rious of moline some of the other contestants were william koo of kirkville Kir kville mo I 1 miss mae of new bedford mass and miss anna of weaver ill at Atthe the beginning of tile iho civil war tho the U S flag was hauled down from tho the courthouse in the town of mansfield la and tile the confederate flag was hoisted in its stead this standard was taken down at the close of the war but feeling 6 that they had bad no country and no flag the citizens did not raise the national hag flag after the presidents note to germany in which he declared that the ameri amer can hag flag stands for humanity the people of mansfield began to feel thester the stir of patriotism and on last hag flag day the stars and stripes were hoisted over the courthouse by H BA A jenkens the man aho vho hauled them down more than halt half a century ago mrs J M miller wife of a former representative ill iii congress has been appointed by gov gov capper ton to a position on the kan sas state board of corrections she is tho the only woman ever appointed by a kansas governor to a salaried position because the state board of corrections has jurisdiction over the state girls industrial school and because women are confined in the state prison the kansas fedaration of clubs urged the file appointment of a woman as a member of the board of corrections and it was their influence that led to the hp appointment of mrs miller towers more than feet high have been built at Sa fayville sayville Say villo L L I 1 and various electrical additions have been made which treble the power of oi of the wireless station there making it the most powerful in the world much has been experienced in rec receiving diving messages af ce certain ertain times in tho the year owing to peculiar static conditions but it is believed that communication will now be possible at any time in the day and at any season of the year it is at this station that most of the communications from germany to the united Sta states aro received com munica munica I 1 eions from this country to ger many going out from the sending station at tuckerton Tuc kerton N J |