Show christmas suggestions ea 1 1 1 ir 56 23 af d 6 arisso 0 suggestions for christmas presents are always glada received by thos those who prefer to make their gifts here are a few some of which may prove so a septable cep table for your friends the first is a magazine cover which may be mad made of ecru linen and embroidered in oriental colors it may also be made of plain brown leather band decorated or a design suitable tor for cut leather may ma be made with little study the second Is a traveling case of linen for toilet articles a very ery useful and an inexpensive christmas gift the third is a needle case with emery attached in the shape of a bell the fourth Is a fony workbag with flower design on linen the fifth Is a for telephone numbers and calls and is made up of linen and embroidered in outline the sixth is an embroidered napkin ring on pure white linen the seventh is an embroidered sofa cushion the eighth Is a for or a pack of playing cards and may be made of cat eat leather or silk A movement wag was started in paris recently to tax tourists but the scheme haa has fallen through french men being to continue to soak them as before china s ancient law compelling the new emperor always to be of the next generation roust must hae ai e been pu put through some ages ago by a lobby ot of would be regents and kept in operation by similar interests the national dowry ow r F ot china seems to be dowagers A new one has succeed ed the old one in power and the report Is that she is quite clever and re it Is odd that in a country where women hold such a despised place a woman ruler should be all powerful but bistor affords many parallels of the case new york hag has a naw new club in bilica the servants are forbidden to take tips under pain of dismissal but vain the struggle against this tipping servitude it is too firmly In trenched to be up rooted without a prolonged struggle it Is the tippers not the tipped who must be appealed to who would be tree free themselves must strike the blow that japanese veteran who Is quoted as predicting a hundred years war between the united states and japan should learn modern history sufficiently to note that after fighting a little more than a year japan japart was so nearly bankrupt as a to have a very lively sense of the beauties of peace only a war scare press bureau can at af ford to make war perpetually all in franc franca mons ion dufo dutour r has sue ceedee in making thermometer tuam of pure quartz nok not only are these tubes exceedingly transparent but their to heat beat and other ad van vantages superior to glass for ghorm thermometers ometery intended to measure high temperatures in such zuel t ther her mo meters melted tin takes the place of mercury and the scale r reads ea d s from about 46 degrees fahrenheit up to to over 1000 1 degrees it could be run up to 1800 degree tor for quartz does not soften below that temperature T A new york rk paper a per tells of the plant ing of a plantation of trees by the pennsylvania railroad for its future use and gives this road the credit tor for being the pioneer in trea tree planting work western roads notably the union pacific undertook stich work long ago an john P brown drown of Conners connersville ville haa has ter yeara years been an adviser in this matter for railroad managers manae ers in the west eat and south and also in 14 canada and mex ico says the indianapolis star near ly every big railroad estem si stern Is now interested in the plan at a recent meeting of scientists in dublin prof G elliott smith miep the egyptologist said that the earliest garliest known human retna remains ins found in the nile valley when compared with those af 0 later times demonstrated the tact fact that at a very remote period egypt and nubia were inhabited by the same race which had existed in egypt with little or no change in physical leal characteristics te throughout the intervening 6 years until he the present day they had been and still were a smal people the average height of the men mev being about five feet three inches at every period of their history |