Show DOINGS f C S IT a 4 b. b JOdd J Odd Answers to Teachers' Teachers Questions One One of tho principals WASHINGTON One pals In in the Washington public schools has bas been been- telling been telling her friends of at some some On amusing incidents of the final s' s before the close of the schools for the summer Among the q questions she gave to tollie the llie children In the third grade was Name the fi five fie e races of man Imag Imag- fine ine her surprise when cne ens tot answered an Automobile r races ces horse races caces airship races foot races and t bicycle races Another question was Name some 3 of f the tho organs of men To this one one replied Mouth organ hand hand pipe organ The spinal cord was defined as a string tring running from the back of the head cad to the bottom of the heels Ears EaTs said one are Just as tont aDt as good goo clothes and should bo be taken Liken care of Just as well wen Dont Don't let bugs crawl Into your ears but If one should get In there syringe your ear car soap suds and afterwards drop some e molasses Into It I f Poison Polson wrote another should be doctored at once once n and d not allo allowed ed to torun torun torun run on as It is dangerous Dont Don't treat poison polson rough rough rough-It it Is liable to run into blood poison polson If anyone anone should take poison polson it Is a good idea to keep jt it as high up out of reach as possible You ought to keep poison polson in a n little room under lock lock and and key in a little Little Lottie and tho the cork corl in so it cant can't be begot begot begot got o out t and hide tho the ke key and have bave skeleton on the bottle and not let nobody nobody no no- body go in there A fA good anty dote for tor poison polson sale sail one one Is to take a teacupful of soap soapsuds soapsuds soapsuds suds every ten minutes to to make tomake you vomit till the doctor comes It is awful to think of the doctors doctor's being delayed several hours A class of six grade six grade pupils were asked ed to write a short biographical sketch of Longfellow One member of the class prou proudly ly submitted the following H W W. Longfellow was a grand man He lie wrote both poems and poetry He graduated at Bowdoin and afterwards afterwards after afterwards wards taught the s same me school where he graduated He didn't like teaching and decided to learn some other trade so his school furnished him money to togo togo togo go to Europe and learn to be a poet He wrote many beautiful poems for children He wrote Billy th the Black BlackSmith smith Rural Free Delivery Is Growing Crowing n F Fast t I T ya JP HE rural Tural free delivery service of 1 M. M the tie United States means the dis dis- distribution of nearly letters and parcels annually along the highways s and nd byways of every state and terri terri- territory tory ory from Maine to Alaska A force of 1000 carriers dally daily go over the routes conies assigned to them says a writer In the Bookkeeper Bringing the mail to the farmer now roosts the nation a year in salaries for the carriers expense of new routes maintaining payments of at Inspectors special l agents clerks and chiefs of I bureaus TTo secure I Information to make changes in routes and and carriers where deemed d necessary to establish new routes an and l to record and tab tabulate statistics data and for the postmaster general net nl as a as well as for the public a aFore Fore of ot only persons Is required Jn m Washington In spite of ot the great of at office work and correspondence correspond correspond- ence rence nce that must be finished daily dally More Store than a million letters are received re re- re- re and answered by the depart depart- neat ament of rural free delivery In a year of Many those received are merely addressed ad ad- dressed to the department To save time of f opening and reading missives mot properly mot directed is a part of the C M r e F l J JU U w ASHINGTON had a safe and W q sane celebration of the national birthday in In years gone by the national na na- lional capital has haa been noted for the noisiest ooh iest Fourth of July celebration of any city In the union Last year they adopted the safe and sane Idea Day Taj fireworks and a parade in the with speech speechmaking makIng on the plaza plara fronting the city buildings In Inthe Inthe the ithe afternoon a motor parade and at might an Illumination Uon of the Menu Manu f grounds and more fireworks The safe saCe and sane ide idea took well at first first and and Washington determined to stick tick by the modern form of at celebration celebration tion this year Therefore the celebration tian tion last Monday began with the reading reading read read- ing of the Declaration Dec ration of at Independence In tn front of the city buildings read read-I Ten ek was the hour set but as luck haws have It the same hour tho the Dos Bas i lion bon fled Sox Sox- and the Nationals bats The Washington Post sand the Che Washington Times have bave of- of es opposite the city building A Ae e about 1000 people had gath- gath the ceremonies At the newspapEr news- news papEr ff es the megaphone men had been conn connected ted by the baseball baseball base base- ball all park I l SINCE c INCE Senator Burton took his cont con- con t investigators of European European Euro Euro- itean waterways abroad abroad- he has been relating this one The senator was In Switzerland In front of the hotel at wl which ch he was stopping a mountain n climbing party was arranging for a work of or the mailing section It n in tn- includes eludes a private postoffice through which every letter received or sent relative to rural delivery must pass Every Everyone one of at the million half and more letters sent from this depart department ment is copied for record b by a mechanical mechanical me me- system which saves the labor of a hundred copying clerks even where the hand copying press or the carbon method has been employed A force of only seventeen clerks Is needed needed need need- ed in this section yet in addition t ta tJ handling and copying mall mail they keep a dally daily record of all the outlay for postage expenses of the department and sort and examine the hundreds o nl nt letters daily dally received which must b bd be returned to the postoffice where here they should have been directed What the service does In receiving applications for new routes petitions for carriers decisions of ot the department department depart depart- ment the payments and receipts is told by the postoffice newspaper Pub Published Published every day daJ by the accounting section It Is a record of what every everyone everyone everyone one in this postal counting house including Including In in- eluding himself Is doing The esprit de corps of at the rural free delivery Is best shown by the last an am annual annual nual report During the tile year it states' states that out of of the In the service the total dismissals for cause were only 65 less than the total number of de deaths tbs The reasons for tor the dismissals were principally Incompetence and failure to o obey ey instructions No dismissals whatever for tor stealing from the malls mails or other dishonesty were on the rec rec- Baseball and the Declaration Mixed I Promptly at ten o'clock a baldhead- baldhead ed edman man In a frock coat arose on the flag draped stand In front of the city building cl cleared ared his throat and began began began be be- gan When the course of human ev ev- ev u ev-u Across the way the megaphone man Interrupted with Milan Ulan Is at the bat bat Ball Ball one vents It becomes necessary continued continued con con- the reader Foul Strike Foul Strike one roared the megaphone The masculine portion of the listeners listen listen- ers became restive Their attention turned In the direction of the megaphone megaphone megaphone mega mega- phone man and their backs toward the patriot for one people to dissolve the pout pout- He hits to left left For For two bases bases bases- Lelivelt LeUvelt at the bat batBy batBy bat bat- I By this time 94 male members me bers atthe of at the Independence day audience had dashed madly across to Newspaper Row Of the original original- audience of the safe and sane celebration women women women wom wom- en 22 children a salubriously Intoxicated intoxicated intoxicated cab driver and the tho police pollee guard remained T Lelivelt sacrifices Elberfeld singles Milan scores Hurrah Wow Wow Wow bellowed bellowed bellowed bel bel- lowed the crowd and the remainder of at the reading of at the g glorious orious document document document docu docu- ment was interspersed with Good Goodboy Goodboy Goodboy boy Doc Oh you Gabby Street for 14 hot Innings But Boston won I Why Burton Didn't Climb Mountains I start to the top of one of the the lesser Alpine peaks The guide was as busy as a bird dog nosing around and giving limitless advice and In what to do and how to do its it Is he a thoroughly skilled climb climb- climber er asked the Ohioan of the hotel notel proprietor Ah Ab zat he lie eez exclaimed ex Ui the bonIface ban bonI- face He have lost two of ot down zee mountains zide and boze times he have comp como of oft so mooch as zee one Burton Durton did not climb any mountains I during his bis sojourn I s I I |