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Show Reveal the Earth's Past 1 fogs 17 From Them Scientist Has Learned of Lost Continents and Vanished Seas; Furnish Information of a Long-Ag- o Ultra Far West. When the frogs croak you can well JnttTr ?died are the scientific backing, that Imagine, with you" hear the nature songa of lost opahmdae. A remarkable famih-- , too continents and vanished seas of the It has developed 150 species the past 175.WU.uw years. of kind new geoga in frog These For species are the clews to b-- v the records of these lost been found in living places M. Metcalf of the fro;,'S by Maynard National museum. His studies are an almost unique method of reading tbe earths past, lie nas pnuiisnea the first report in tne omciai journal K,nhv have Science. The frog map shows the possible existence of a great continent In the Pacific, In Triassic times, 175,000,000 was (jondwanda-lanyears ago. This some evidences of which scien tists have found previously by other methods. Gomlwandaiami probably connected with South America. Another lost frog continent was Lemuria. It likewise was about years back, but In the Indian ocean. It appears to have connected Africa, Madagascar, Ceylon, southernmost India, the Islands of southwest Maylasia and probably pome of the southwestern Malay archipelago Islands. Then the frogs show an ultra-Fa- r West. This was a strip of land west of the present Pacific coast of the United States. It ran from Siberia, down past Alaska, Central America, and perhaps even for a time, Maynard finds, to Ecuador and Chile. Its heyday was 50,000,000 to 100,000,-00- 0 years ago. In this same cretaceous times, d 0 there probably wasn't much Texas. Instead the frogs Indicate an arm of the sea there, running up from the western Gulf of Mexico all the way Into the Arctic ocean. Finally, 100,000,000 years ago Byrd apparently might have walked to Little America from South America, Australia or Africa, as he chose. Seemingly then there was an extended Antarctica, connecting with all three continents. The usual method of reconstructing the past is through skeletons of animals, but the frogs left too few bones. Maynard gets his frog map from the "commensals" of these animals. commensal is "one who dines at the same board with another or othA ers," In human society some comuien-Kil- s are honored positions, but In frogs they are just plain parasites. frogs geographical couldnt swim the the migrations. He oceans. There had to be land to account for all the Places he has gone. The commensals show where these places were by the changes they underwent and evolved while dining with the frogs. TRACESDESfCENT OF BIRDS FROM FLYING REPTILES All birds descended from flying reptiles with teeth, according to Dr Alexander Wetmore, assistant secret tary of the Smithsonian institution. He has traced the family history of the birds back to tlie grotesque archeopteryx and archeornis, nature's first attempts at bird making. At the top of the scale of evolution are the songbirds, while the most primitive birds living today are the ostrich and the penguin. The story of the Wright brothers is well known. But how did the first flying reptile manage to "take off?" There were few airports at that time and those were not equipped with modern safety devices. None of the animals or reptiles had made a flight or a journey to the stratosphere and there were no birds to soar and glide gracefully through the air. Flying existed only in the mind's eye of the lowly though Imaginative reptile, and while it had a good set of teeth. It could not use them in such an undertaking. This happened about 150,000,000 years ago. and we are frequently reminded that evolution can accomplish wonders in millions of years. But trans-Atlant- ic It cannot he rushed. heads, rattlesnakes, water moccasins and black snakes of the Ozarks have never sprouted wings, nor has any one of them ever been heard to sing like a mocking bird. Their offspring always lack both the ambition and the ability to fly. But that does not mean they win always remata as they are, unless, Indeed, evolution sometimes runs into a blind alley, a possibility suggested by Doctor Wet-mor- e himself. He ventures the opinion that birds may have reached the end of the evolutionary road, because he says, civilized man Is disturbing the natural conditions of the earth. And if birds will never become reptiles, perhaps reptiles will never become birds. St. Louis Globe-Democra- Seven Years' Work on World's Smallest Book Completion of what Is described as the smallest printed book In the world, a tiny volume of 28 pages of verses by the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam, was announced recently at W orcester, Mass. The book, so small that Its entire contents would barely cover half of an ordinary postage stamp, contains 41! quatrains of Omar's poetry from a translation made several years ago by a Worcester man, Eben Francis Thompson, a widely known student Persia. The tiny book is the work of Philadelphia publishers, who completed It some time ago, after more than seven years' effort. In its final form, bound In leather covers, it is by of an Inch in dimension. It was printed from copper plates. Seven plates, each containing four pages, were made by Two quatrains appear on a page. The completed book weighs a third of a carat. The smallest printed book previously known was a miniature printed in Cleveland, Ohio, In 1900. This volume, which lias since become a literary rarity, was also a book of Omar's verses, made up from the fourth edition of Fitzgerald's translation. It was approximately of an Inch taller than the loof 6 photo-engravin- one-eigh- th cal book. Child's First Three Years Character Then Developed Lasts Through Life; Writer Cites a Case Which Would Seem to Prove Truth of Jesuitical Theory. By L. F. RAMSEY, National Kindergarten Association. Ursula has just been to see me. She is a young composer, in the twenANDES ties, of whom the world will hear. And when recognition comes, as it surely will, no one will be more thrilled than I, who had a share in musical this genius. Mom.t Everest Is accepted as the developing highest mountain In the world. But Please notice that I said, only, "in what do we mean by high? Eleva- developing." tions are given In terms of sea level. In the beginning, It just happened. If we measure them from the cen- I used to practice the piano each ter of the earth it turns out that morning during the time Ursula's Chimhorazo In the Andes is 2,200 Nannie was having breakfast, and meters (7,217.8 feet) higher than from the age of three weeks the baby Mount Everest. was brought into the room and lay In presenting this argument In Die there while I played. It made no difVmschfiu, Ir. G. Ilosch points out ference whether she was awake or that accurate measurements have asleep; she never cried. When she been made of the distance of sea was able to sit up I was startled one level from the center of the earth morning to see her swaying backfrom the equator to the poles. Where wards and forwards to the rhythm the distance is not known It can be of the music. deduced with an error of but a few At six months old, she sang her nieters. While It Is true that the first musical sounds, two notes at earth Is not a perfect sphere, or even the Interval of a third, In Imitation an ellipsoid, no correction need be of the sound made by the swinging made on the score of figure because of a hanging lamp. At eleven months tlie eiirth's diameter does not vary old, she sang the first phrase of a iliffirieiitly. song, of which I bad just played the Measured from the center of the Introduction a phrase which did earth, Mount Everest Is exceeded Ii; not occur In the pianoforte part height not only by Chimhorazo hut Ursula now began to show strong by Hnascaran. On his first flight Mendelssohn's and dislikes. likes Into the stratosphere Piecard readied "Lied No. 10" In B minor was a faon altitude of 15.S km. (0.70 miles) chuckled when or 0.nS2 km. (3,065.6 miles) from the vorite and she always I played It. Heller's "Studies" apcenter of the earth. His "height" to her and Handel's "Harwuh therefore about that of Mount pealed Blacksmith." P.efore she monious Everest. Had he ascended from a was a old, she surprised everyyear place on the equator or from one of at a copy of her snatching by tlie mountains of Ecuador he would body "Little Folks" which conbrother's really have reached an altitude great- tained a page of music, shouting gleeer TOWERS BEYOND FAMED EVEREST One Sunday afternon, I played to her for over three hours, and she sat by tlie piano in her high chair listening Intently and occasionally volunteering a comment: "Dat welly jolly t" or asking. "What dat called?" One of those popular airs that than any ever attained by man. As It Is, the world's record must be given to any aviators who may havp fioWn over chlmborazo. Even tlie Itnsslan stratosphere balloonists ho ciime to a tragic end after reaching an altitude of 18.4 km. (11 :1.1 miles) did not overtop measured by the earth-cente- r '.'it!i:ird, Inasmuch as they ascended from a more northerly and there-fr- e n "deeper" latitude New York spread throughout the world like an epidemic was all the rage and I played It over one day to Ursula, before she was two. She was standing by the piano and had never before Interrupted me, but before I had sung two lines she protested: "No, no." Then, as I paid no attention, she threw herself face downwards on the floor, sobbing out: "Baby not like!" It was just about this time that her brother had a humming-tothat was not in tune and Ursula would howl with her hands to her cars If she heard it. He thought it a joke, but It was no joke to a child with a musical temperament. At two years old, Ursula recognized any of Beethoven's sonatas and would find the one she wanted In the volume. She began then to recognize similarities, and once whei.' I was playing the "No. 10 Lied," she remarked : "Like 'Pastorale.' " I was and it Is noticeplaying bars of the "Pasable that bars torale" are similar. She now began to recognize the styles of different composers and "Dat would remark confidently: Grieg!" or "Dat Gounod!" Before she was three, she was taken to a pianoforte recital and sat through It, one of the most Interested listeners. The Jesuit who wag coi.fldent that If he might have the care of a child daring Its early years he need not fear the Influence of any later enhas given us food for vironment thought Ursula seems to support his theory. She will always choose the companionship of good music. She Is a genius, doubtless, because of inheritance, though we know not from what ancestor or ancestors, but her cultured taste who can doubt that such Idealistic discrimination' Is the result o fher early education? MOUNTAIN PIc-far- d, Times. fully: "Plan', plan'." was magazines A pile of old brought and she picked out tlie page of music from each one, with the same cry. She now began to Identify me with the Instrument, calling out: "Plan', plan'," directly she caught months, sight of me. At twenty-twshe could sing fifteen songs, such ns "Skire First I Saw Your Face," and other old English songs. She never wearied of listening. G7-7- 3 73-7- 8 Fashion Sells Women Things Not Required? By GRETTA OR VVM World-Telegra- well-ordere- long could fashions Jog quietly along with few changes from season to season. But manufacturers devised ways of making silk so cheaply that all classes could afford It, and Its possession ceased to be a proof of solYet the snobbish impulse vency. remained. How could It be expressed? Well, you and I and fifty million other American women know the answerto our sorrow. Instead of buying one taffeta dress a year, our grande dame began to buy twenty. And each one was so differently devised from its predecessor that the onlooker knew It had come smack out of a shop window within a week. Pretty soon we were all trying to keep up with her panting a little, blinking our eyes, going Into bankruptcy, hut wearing the dress of the month Instead of the very pretty model left over from last fall And that, grandchildren. Is why there Is no such thing as fashion In any socialist community. J Reindeer's Great Value in the Extreme North The reindeer, traditional means of transportation for Santa Claus In his trips from the North pole, serve a really practical purpose in every-da- y life. In Lapland and Siberia the reindeer serves the fourfold purposes of horse, cow, goat ant sheep In other lands. The reindeer furnish a satisfactory supply of milk, material for clothing and meat foi the table. Unlike other type: of deer, the female is as well equipped with antlers as the male, the prongs serving to scoop snow aside to bare the reindeer moss and other forms of vegetation on which they feed. The reindeer are comparatively short-leggebut still, when domesticated, can draw weights up to 3,300 pounds at a speed of 10 miles an hour. The United States government has been actively engaged in propagating reindeer In Alaska to aid the natives In the more extreme sections of the country. STRONG RULERS IN THE ORIENT Careers Reminiscent of "The Arabian Nights." There are still men In the Orient had careers typical of "The Arabian Nights, but even in the Orient a certain change seems to have occurred. No longer does the good will of a eunuch, the pleasure of a pasha, or the love of a princess bring advancement, but, remarkable as it may seem, courage, courage, courage with luck and diplomacy added, Mustapha Kemal Pasha had such a career, rising from the position of commander of a Turkish army corps on the Palestine front to ruler of modern Turkey. Rlza Shay had such a career, rising from noncommissioned Cossack oiiicer to Cossack colonel, then from colonel to prime minister and then emperor of Persia. King Ibn Saud had such a career. He was born a son cf an exiled Arabian monarch and set out at the age of eighteen to win back his father's kingdom, just as the prince In "The Arabian Nights" goes to do battle against the evil jinnee. And between these three soldiers ruled a fourth king from "The Arabian Nights," living In Bagdad, the He, too, city of Harun was a new man on the throne, who had also commenced his career on the field of battle. He, too, was a figure out of "The Arabian Nights," but King Faisal of Irak was a very different kind of man from his three neighbors. The delicate descendant of a line of aristocratic priests, he adapted himself to the more robust methods of the new politics of the Orient who have PLUGS Cleaned money! SAVE YOU OF GAS YOUR SPARK PLUGS STOP THE WASTE OF 1 GALLON IN 10 . . . 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And usually they support thtyr contention of man's greater mental poise by proudly showing a tailor's mark in the suit they are wearing, proving that it was made In 1925. So far as we know there is only one answer to make, and that Is to explain to them Veblen's Theory of Waste and plead guilty to the charge of snobbery It Involves. This theory, mesdames, states that as soon as a man or woman has more money than is needed for the regulation comforts and necessities of a d existence the unspent Income begins to worry him. He has worked hard for that money, and he wants the world to know he has It. (It la a vulgar Impulse, but there It Is.) What can he do? Hs can buy something he doesn't really need or Intrinsically desire, just to show that he can afford It. He will buy six automobiles, although It is obvious that he can ride In only one at a house time. He will build a and live In one wing of It. He will buy Rembrandts, even if he does not care for paintings and diamonds that he cannot tell from glass. the After a few generations wealthy usually grow accustomed to the fact that they are rich and are less Interested in advertising the fact. They can then shed their ostentation and stop buying things they do not want nnd begin to enjoy themselves. But In almost every instance you will still find them consuming a great many more things than they enjoy consuming because a certain amount of waste Is demanded by the conventions which surround their lives. It Is on this foundation that fash-Io- n rests. Formerly it was possible for a woman of high degree to buy silks and satins which were prohibitively expensive. Their very fragility marked them as wasteful and snobbish possessions, for their appearance proved to all observers that madame was unaccustomed to the scrubbing of floors. 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