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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Revolution in Austria Why Paint Toenails? Slow Waltz, Less Fighting Watching the Hen Lay Vienna and what is left of Austria Aus-tria are threatened with a revolution. revolu-tion. Signs placed secretly on mail boxes read: 'Workers and comrades, remain united and be careful. The day of revenge is coming." Signed A Fighter." With that comes news that the Vienna-Paris-London express train was wrecked in Austria by the removal re-moval of a steel rail, causing the death of a fireman and one other and injuring many. The result of such tactics, keeping travelers and money out of Austria, may be to bring revolution more rapidly. In New Orleans the convention of "American Cosmeticians," manufacturers man-ufacturers and distributors of things that ladies put on their faces, announce an-nounce more in the way of transformation trans-formation than has been seen thus far hair of many colors, easily changed ; very fine "precious stone" effects on the finger nails. Many things can be forgiven, but hope and pray that ladies and cosmeticians cos-meticians can be persuaded to give up painting the toenails. It is a terrible thing when a young woman crosses her legs to see, peeping out of new-fangled sandals, a big toe with a nail made to look like a ca-bochon ca-bochon ruby. Knowledge of mob psychology is shewn in the statement of a night club manager. "When a fight breaks out in the club the orchestra has orders to stop jazz and everything exciting and play a slow, dreamy waltz. That quiets them." According to information obtained by Mr. "Whirligig," a quiet waltz keeps those not interested in the fight from joining in. An intelligent Frenchman, Gus-tave Gus-tave Le Bon, has written a book called La Foule ("The Crowd"), that confirms the night club manager's mana-ger's theory. Crowds do not reason ; logical arguments have no effect on them. But music does affect them, and so does loud yelling. A distinguished American, living in Spain, told how wonderfully fresh the eggs were. The farmer's wife would watch the hen sitting on the nest, taking the egg as soon as it was laid, and give it to the American for breakfast. Similarly, the earnest, conscientious conscien-tious American tax collectors watch the country's business men sitting on the industrial nest and take away the dollar as soon as It is made. The veterans' administration In Washington laid down the interesting interest-ing rule that blind veterans of the World war should receive twice as much as a soldier who lost a leg in battle. The legless veteran gets $119 a month as a maximum. If he has lost the use of both feet, or both hands, or one foot and one hand and one eye, he can get a maximum of $175 a month. A veteran totally blind is entitled to $150 a month, plus $50 for a nurse or attendant, "even though, the blindness resulted from willful misconduct." Except insanity, no misfortune 1 is greater than loss of eyesight If you feel gloomy and perhaps begin to feel that "the world is going go-ing to the dogs," remember that ' the Gracchi believed it in Rome long I ago. Adam and Eve believed it ' when they were put out of the garden. gar-den. The world has always been "going to the dogs," yet always getting get-ting better. May first, according to the President's Presi-dent's proclamation, will be "Child Health day." The best way to pro- j mote child health is to encourage abundant distribution of the right j kinds of food for children, particularly particu-larly good, fresh milk, butter, eggs, fresh vegetables, fruits, at reasonable reason-able prices. To pay farmers to cut down production pro-duction of such things, and force up prices, may be good for pros-' perity, but it will not be good for ' the health of children. In the Stroud (Okla.) prison young Mr. Raymond Boles, if that Is his right name, knows that young, shrinking, timid American 1 girls are sometimes dangerous. He walked into the Rudell home, pistol In hand, told Mildred, sixteen, and her sister, Lillian, seventeen, that he was none oilier than the fa-! mous bandit, "Pretty Boy" Floyd,' demanded the key to their absent father's automobile. Lillian took away his pistol, Mildred held him by the hair. Since Uncle Sam went off the gold basis and began buying gold at any price he had to pay, he has brought across the water about $700,000,000 worth of new gold, an Increase in our gold reserve greater than the- total gold ownership of any other nation of earth, except France, England and Spain. This makes Europe l'eel dubious about "selling dollars short." , KI.111 V-MMrm. SynUleuto, Ino. WNU Scrrlce |