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Show Holding Mirror Up to Defects Things We Might Have Missed ODD THINGS AND NEW By Lame Bode King of the Clouds By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Lata Dean of Men, University of Illinois. 0 Og The story Is told of Bach, the great musician, that one day he visited a city in which there was a cathedral containing a wonderful organ. He approached the sexton In charge requesting him first that he might he allowed to see the organ, and this request being granted, Hint he might play iiiam It. '1 lie sexton Of nosweiJ0ak. 6PEU9 HIS NAME distant this it C Q CON MEN ARE ACTIVE Swindlers Find Victims in Parisian Cafes. Paris. The success with which two unimaginable "confidence men" swindled a visiting Australian millionaire In a popular boulevard cafe recently Indicates that the world depression Is not universal. Despite repeated successes of these "con men In this most well known of Parisian sidewalk cafes, the victims still seem to come from somewhere and still provide easy money for plausible crooks, who not only go by unpunished, but who return at a later date with a different passport, a different name, and different mustache, perpetuating the some old gag and dlsappoartng before thrir victim line time to get to the police station. Only recently a trusting Australian gentleman dropped upwards of 4,000,-00francs on the flimsiest of 0 flim-fla- SUCH IS LIFE prevalent gag If for one of the swindlers to take a chair on the terrace of a popular cafe where all the world goes and wait until some particular bird of prey arrives. The victim selected Is either chosen by prearranged tactics on the part of the gang, or a victim Is chosen at random because of his apparent or supposed possession of ready weulth. The con man," so to speak, having sn engaging personality, soon makes the acquaintance of the victim and. It the victim Is at all susceptible, the worldly nrts of a gentleman who lias lived both In and out of Jails, under every circumstance on all continents, soon makes Its Insidious effect, and are formed. two firm friendships Prinks follow, confidences about family; borne towns, women, men and events. The crook is apparently wenllhy, Just a careless fellow whose people are rich, or whose uncle Is president Pop V , 1131, WMUrn Unloa. Nwiaper 6v WM( W FOR STFADILY WvUtfS 2,000.000.000 MAKING fHS GAME Wfl-iOU- hot twice!!! Fashionable Ladies of Equatorial by National Geoirraphlo Society, a.hlligtOLl, ii u. - V.U ouliui. Prepared ,V one of lie world's masses, has RUWENZORI, by a Belgian expedition entirely in Belgian territory, according to reports from the Belgian Congo In which a part of the mountain lies. The feat, not hitherto accomplished, required a climb of more than 1G.OOO feet of difficult, truilless Jungle and rocky slopes. Ruwenzori Is unusual In Its very situation. It lies almost Immediately under the equator, surrounded by rank, steaming tropical forests and plains covered with tall elephant grass; yet It pushes its peaks up to eternal snows. Nowhere else are there comparable heights under the equator, rising from the heart of a continent. The Andes of Ecuador, relatively close to the coast, and the mountains of the Island of New Guinea are the closest competitors. Weather conditions do their part in contributing to the strangeness of this African mountain mass, and in throwing an almost literal veil of mystery around It. The peaks are hidden to observers from the plains and forests by clouds and fog except at rare Intervals. As a result, the definite existence of the mountains was unknown to Europeans until 1SG4 when Sir Samuel Baker, while exploring Lake Albert, saw "a blue Ilia observamountain to the south. tion went unverified until 38.S7 when Stanley saw the peaks and made known the fact, for the first time, that they were It was not until more Allan a decade Inter that the snow line was first reachea; and the crests were not nttalned until 1000 when the duke of the AbruzzI led his expedition to the top. The name, Mountains of the Moon, la believed to have arisen from a mistaken translation from Arabic; blit It has fitted well Into the atmosphere of mystery that surrounded Ruwenzori for centuries ; and It has a figurative Justification because of the weird appearance of the mountain slopes. The relatively few white men who have made the arduous climb have all noted the impression that they had blundered Into some alien world. The combination of excessive moisture, altitude and equatorial sun has produced a unique vegetation that In many ways is utterly fanI WANS poenhoff MADE A 65 -- MILE LlDER FLIGHT... Munich ,0er., To f Ka3den, Czecho-Slevaki- a (WNU Service) FINDS BLINDNESS IS NOT A DISADVANTAGE ter!" DESPITE DEPRESSION xV BILLIARDlSf COULD PL0V refused re- How much we have missed or come near missing hy our stubbornness or our unwillingness to take advantage of opportunities. I think I might have missed all tbe pleasant experiences which have come to me during the last forty years. I had a boy friend who had moved away from our community and whom I had not seen for a half dozen years. 1 had thought of Inviting him to visit me, hut had put off the Invitation as one will In such cases. Then one day I had the inspiration and acted on It. He came. He hud been to college and he persuaded me to go. But for the Inspiration which led me to Invite him to visit me I doubt very much that I should ever have left the farm. Maybe It would have been Just as well. Did you ever wonder what would have happened to you and what you might have missed had you turned down a different road than the one you took one night, or If you hadnt goria to tho party nhuro you met tb" girl you married, or where you would be today If you had not made certala decisions a score of years ago? t EBf 3 lffRS cooffiiSofro tSiSH 8 i?A) stalks IN SOUTH OPRl quest, sajlng that It was quite contrary to his directions to let any stranger touch the Instru-mtm- t which might he Injured It not carefully handled. Iiach was Insistent, however, and persuasive, and finally the sexton yielded. As he listened to the great musician handling the wonderful instrument the sexton was first astonished and then held spellbound. Finally it dawned Looking glasses are used by the little members of tilts aimed) defect clinic at the summer school of Temple university to cure their own faulty speech. Stammering, stuttering, lisping and "baby talk" are some of the things overcome. The clinic Is a feature of the Teachers college summer curriculum. wf o sow second upon him wtio It was to whose music ha wag listening. There was only one man In the world who hud such skill. When the music was ended he came up to the player and grasped him by You are Bach," he said, the band. and then remembering his refusal to let the musleian touch the organ, and to think I might have missed the mas- WrfH .l s Lawyer Just Works Harder Than Other Fellow. Chicago. Sightless eyes are no disadvantage to Herbert Geisler, lawyer, who considers that he got a ''break when, at the age of seven years, a childish accident at the hands of a rough playmate left him blind. I Just work harder than the other "Thats the fellow," said Geisler. only reason I won honors In school, and the ouly reason I win cases In courts. I'm not afraid of work, and I do It more cheerfully than the lawyers who can tee." Geisler, who Is twenty-eigh- t years old, and has been engaged In a general law practice for three years, was president of his class and made a brilliant record In John Marshall high school. He enteret the University of Chicago and inV'0 exceptional grades in the three yetrs of pre-lawork, and entered the law school, graduating In 1SV.A) with the highest honors of his class the Pets He also was president of his class the law school, and was elected to the Order of the Coif, an honorary law scholastic fraternity. Geisler was chairman of the University of Chicago editors of the Illinois Law Review, and won the Wlggln robe prize for scholarship In his second year. I find the fact that I cannot see no disadvantage to me In the courts. In examination of witnesses it Is not their faclRl expression that reveals whether they are telling the truth, but their words. Geisler has a reader, and In addition Is proficient in reading the Braille system. He rapidly takes notes for courtroom use on the Braille typewriter, and In tho courtroom takes notes In Braille with the stylus. lie swims, dances, bowls, takes long walks and Is fond of fishing. Although totally blind, he leads an active, normal life. Hes known among fellows who were his classmates In law school as a good sport, a keen mind and an excellent companion. In snow-cappe- By Charles Sughroe v rm tastic. The two police thugs who games. trimmed the amiable visitor were old offenders, and their appearance was Signalized In Paris. Itut police action came only when the veneruhle gentleman had parted with his millions. Use Slmpls 8ystem. In this particular cafe the simplest of systems are employed. Many victims probably get wise and fall to collaborate, but when a brother falls these thugs mnke It well worth the The time lost on their bad guesses. Shes a Busy Woman of a big corporation, and whose acquaintance Is vast among men of cirTo make money bores cumstance. him, because he has plenty. Flattering Ovort. Ity devious menns the crook establishes the approximate wealth of his victim. And, by some singular coincidence, a venerable gentleman happens by the cafe. He speaks to the crook as though he might he the son The of his elder business partner. first crook luvltes his respected friend to Join them In a drink. He explains overtly that the old gentlemnn is one of America's or England's greatest bankers, the silent partner of ship lines, oil concessions, gold mines and scandalously rUh, who Is retired hut who goes to the stock exchange as a matter of long habit. The two crooks talk of a little deal. Terhaps they leave their new friend out of this little deal. The next day they met again, and the elderly gentleman turns over a few thousand francs with a bored air as the winnings of their little deal. They offer to let their victim In on one of those little deals, and they even bet Jocularly among themselves who will get trimmed on the next stock deal This goes on until tho friend Is convinced that he Is In good company. Then comes the real deal. The victim lays out cash, a specially big prlre on a new stock. The next day the two friends cross the frontier and the Innoon the cent victim calls police. shnrae-fneedl- Meet the busiest young lady In Washington, lira Helen N. Perry, secretary to Doctor Cries, who Is secretary of tbe Dew home loan bank board. All persons having business with the board, be they borrowers, officials or Job seekers, the last of which are le glon, must state their case to Mrs Perry before being admitted to any of the members of the board. y Unhurt in Car Crash, Nurse Dies of Fright New Tork. Miss Elsie Cob, twenty-thre- e years old, a nurse at the Creed-mooState hospital, died In Jamaica r hospital following an automobile collision a few hours earlier. Hospital authorities said that as far as they could learn Miss Cob was physically unhurt, but the shock brought on an attack of hyster'a which affected her heart. This caused her death. Earl Grace r- - Archery Practice Ruins House Walls tyw. v,.... T Even the rain S.tn Mateo, Calif. dldut stop Robert MacCollister and his little bow and arrow. When the rain began to fall moved his target practice Mac-tolllst- .4 ; t V r t vyy ' i v vv wa ' x' : ' the house. A wall, MaeCol-liste- r found, made an excellent target fur his arrows. But Mis. Robert Person, owner of tho homo In which MacCollister was Hung, objected. She told the comt her walls were pockmarked with arrow holes. MncCollister paid to ha e the room replastered. Into 'Vv ' : i V( .A VA - ' 5 6 POTPOURRI Seeing Red When we face the sunlight with our eyes closed we do not seem to be In darkness, but rattier, a red dish glow penetrates our visions. This Is because the rod blood in our eyelids closes out all other colors which go to make up light, allowing only the red to pass through. Nwipapr brown, yellow, green, are all about tinder They grow In huge cushions that encircle the limbs of the heath trees like giant mushrooms Impaled on a skewer. The unearthly fV'-- ' appearance Is heightened usually by which the strange fog. through growths loom dimly; and there Is a continual drip of water from limbs t 'rAvr , and moss eltimps. The way often leads through swamps nnd muck up to ones knees. v Above the heath forests, on less swampy ground, giant lnbcdias cover I 'S large areas, sending their sp'fies up ,t t to twenty feet or more. All about are x variety of weeds, grown almost to the magnitude of trees. Further np are thickets of bamboo through which progress Is extremely difficult. The highest slopes, Just below the snow line, are covered with a thick growth of everlasting flowers. -Except on Its lowest slopes Rewen-xor- l Is uninhabited, and above the : tropical forests there Is not much animal life. The soggy heath forests are almost devoid of animals, birds and Insects. On other parts of the This crisp summer frock, a typical slopes, where sparse animal fife Is hot weather dress appropriate for any found. It forms a queer assortment: time of the day, embodies some of the a few Riuall mountain antelopes; most popular features of the tie- - leopards that prey on them; hy raxes, around style. It Is at Its best In flock-do- which are harehke conies; " bats with a of two voile, which Is full of fashion lm portance ft the present time. Wom- feet; and a few birds and insects. an's Home Companion. The name, Ruwenzori, was selected by Stanley as the most common among a large number of native desAging the English Novel ignations. It has been Interpreted as a Although copy of every book, meaning "King of the Clouds" and newspaper, piece of music and pamph- "Rain-makelet published in this country must be Really a Mountain Range. deposited In the British Museum liRuwenzorL Is not a single mountain, to read the novels but a pofliet-slze- " brary, applications range. With Its are not granted until they have been foothills It Is 00 miles approximately five published years. London An- - long and 30 miles wide. The naming 1 swers. system that has been followed is rather complex. Topping the moun 'r . !n gust 20, 1031. 1131, Western mosses white and red and overhead. colored i'i ' Just the other day Earl Grace, catcher for tho l'ittshurgh Pirates, completed his otie hundredth con seen tlve game without an error, lie had bundled "TO chances without a uilsplay, his last previous error being on Au , Vegetation Is Extraordinary. After emerging from the dense tropical forests of the lower slopes, a climber feels like a Lilliputian visiting the meadows of Brohdingnag. He walks among parsley plants nine feet high, "bird seed threp times his height, and heather plants, relatives of the low Scottish shrub, that have expanded Into great trees 70 and 80 feet tall. To add to the weirdness, j fruit-eatin- wing-spread- Unloa. Proper Ventilation The best way to ventilate a room Is to open a window top and bottom or one window at the top and another on the opposite aide cf the room at the bottom. 'T" e "No burglar for wants to b mistaken a husband." C 1931. B,p Bradlcatt. ' WWJ Sarvlow Africa. tain mass are six explored groups of snowy peaks, and a few other heights not yet climbed. Each group Is given a name as a mountain, and each peak Is then separately named. From north to south the snowy mountain groups which have been climbed are Emin, Gessl, Speke, Stanley, Baker and Luigi di Savoiu, each named for an explorer of Ruwenzori Itself or of neighboring portions of Africa. Mount Luigi dl Savola bears the name of the duke of the AbruzzI. Mount Stanley is the highest of the six groups. All four of Its peaks Margherlta, Alexandra, Elena and Savola are more than 10,000 feet high, and exceed by several hundred feet the peaks of the neighboring groups. Margherita peak forms the crest of Ruwenzori, with an altitude of 10.S10 feet above sea leveL Numerous small glaciers extend down from the snowy peaks to about snow-cappe- d 14,000-foo- t level, and from them triekle many streams. From whichever side the drainage comes, It finds Its way into the surrounding lakes and rivers and flows, through Lake Ruwenzori Albert, Into the Nile. thus fulfills the ancient tradition: It Is the "Mountain of the Moon" on whose white crests Egypt's river Is born. The portion of Ruwenzori lying north of Mounts Emin and Gessl has never been climbed. In addition to making a survey of the western slopes of the entire range, the Belgian expedition plans to climb the peaks of this northern region and to obtain definite information In regard to their g heights. Odd Facts About the Equator. While Ruwenzoris snow has been a popular hard to believe subject, there are other facts about the world's hot line that are, perhaps, equally as strange. For example: The equator crosses no deserts. The equator does not touch continental Asia. Less than one fourth of the equator traverses land. The equator cuts Africa nearly In half, traversing the middle section of Kenya, severing the northern third from the Belgian Congo and bisecting the tongue of Freuch equatorial Africa which, with Angola, nearly squeezes the Belgian Congo off the Atlantic coast. In the 2,300 miles across equatorial Africa there are no deserts hut torrid Jungles, some parts of which are so canopied by trees Interlaced hy vines that only peneil-likrays of sunshine penetrate. In this region the traveler meets with naked, black, kinky-hairetribesmen, and such unfriendly beasts as w'ild elephants, lions and hippoe potamuses. Just below Ruwenzori's western slope Is the bailiwick of the Ram-hut- e pygmies, shy, diminutive folk of the lungles, and beyond Is the domain of Bantu tribes, some of whom relish human flesh. The Masai, among the world's fiercest natives, Inhabit the regions to the east of the mountain. Between the western roast of Africa and the coast of South America, the equator crosses no land. In the mouth of the Amazon it traverses Mexlnna Island and then plunges Into 2,000 miles of jungle land, almost as Impenetrable in places ns the jungles of Africa. South America's Jungle. Equatorial South America Is the land of Indians of yellowish and reddish hues with straight hair which Is cut as though soup bowls had been applied to the natives heads as guides for barbers scissors. The largest animal Is the tapir, and ant eaters ara abundant At the eastern base of the Andes, the equatorial traveler meets tha Jivaros, natives who are proud of their art in shrinking human heads to the size of cn orange, with the hair and skin intact From their hot Jungle homes, the Jivaros can see the Andes of Ecuador and western Brazil. Quito, capital of Ecuador, nestles ta the Andean hills, about fifteen miles south of the equator. The equator begins Its flight" by crossing the Galapagos islands and then makes a long Jump to the East Indies where It traverses Celebes, Dutch Borneo and Sumatra, missing Singapore, the nearest point of continental Asia by only 00 miles. These regions are Inhabited by brownskinned natives, some of whom show traces of Mongolian, Hindu and Malayan blood. From Sumatra westward, the equator touches no land until it strikes Kenya, East Africa. snow-cappe- d trans-Paeifi- c |
