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Show IaNESE BOYS'" FETE 'BAY BY FLORENCE TELTIEB rERHV. . . on. llm the bos of tnB 'VMboJ'ln J n nr- sleeping am It is night now you Know ..n.ihlk' wadded comfort-"?m comfort-"?m ho Japanese cU .Mch are l""1 n" ,h8 nonr-jIlltM nonr-jIlltM bed " ha In the Iinrl Thli In the Image of a soungster whose osl lad thnt ever was known f.r ho went Iimu nnd goblin hunting while set it baby nnct sou would lie amazed If "Vnu nre wondering whs the carp ate rut up on Hoj s day In Japan, -iren t Kintokl IUdlnp; the Carp. RHiR Bun nml the tlllovvs me loW Think of thnt' 7 til" tlt-p of llir Ikh In that if lnd ii full of plnmnnt tor tomorrow Mny B. In their Me i n when American r lurking thflr laddie Into Shim them (.nml nlRht klsies Imj i i in l, ,,,, , t - hulnir n fine time. Whnt a 'Mtmt ih.m f ii,, happen to trulclt) Ilk-Toklo. for nl.nve " frnnd pour v 111 Mont lliih ni tnd r 7 On the roof of In uMrh i Imhy hoj hni rtn? the voir Ir erected n T ?nl '""" lie lP of It ,il J ??' lho "irt 'I"-' Ih ralle'J i "hi. HI h nr of m my col-' col-' ,t' Th' r"P ire made of W .V"1 me ntirllngls llfe-wiTOillil llfe-wiTOillil kot,.,cn by n wire ii..?'.1"" ",0 ,llr ln I1H tho ?.... " w '"" "" In ItH Ik. I ii".' S "nl " ' "I "P" ."'r 'h "lr tn r.u out. b.5. Srh "' ' '"" n lulliioi, tt'V "." "limning- In wnter. Wnlit ,r, "' won lerfiilly to ,,. " fellow i of n foot In ?"'" '",n "" twenty m .""" '" 'e nlr oer-,;t oer-,;t it make on feel, n &f:rn,f iv'iiv" u're" "'" iSnln"0 ."l,,n ""TMIifch U I2,.,n, ''"'I "ometlmea a It Th,n Ir,,"fl1 '" "'" ,'11 0f iltl. "Rtlti "lie may sen a " "line on a cirps Inck. ou (lly tho ay, the Japinese mme for this feRtUnl la TaiiRo ) Well, this la the rrnson why The 1 hIr In Japan, n soon na they nie 1Mb enouKh to unileri'tani!. are tnuKhl that first or nil thej rnunt loxe their Hmpeior nml their iounli mi ile otelly that the lll Bla llj rtle. If neeesar for ellhei, Tlie are nto t lusht that unlosa they nie brave and determined thej laniint mtp country nnd 1 mpcrnrni tluy fhoiild iiu kl.i. do ou not, how hard It la to bwIiii or row nsnlnRt the current? The tjip nets lirmels about this dltll-cult dltll-cult task of BwlminiR iiistieam and ofltn mirceels In hl effort, In the t fairs til of lunnn Ihera mo legends of how carp have been known to (llmh waterfalls When one (.ucceeda In ilo-Jiir ilo-Jiir till n erent while cloud toniea clovin upon the water nnd catches up the carp and carries It nnj off and till lis II Into a miRiiirkent drunon, whkh la the r luckiest thlna Hut can happen to a fish -a Jipnnese llsli, I 'lien n f o, sou see, the boji nre reminded bj liet.e puiei llsli, or kul, as they are i.-illeil In Jiipm that na a carp strug-xlen strug-xlen up (he Blieam In si He of dlllli ultle and ilaiiKeis, so the truly brne boy will flRht his waj throiiRh the world nnd lonuucr all nbsfuleh th it beset his path All dnj lonK the klc rustln oierhead while the bos fence with toj swords an I ln thnt the are brave warriors defendhiR I heir lountiy. In tha guest loom In eveij lious wluie theio oic sons nie tiny models of tint I.nipeior and Ills couit nnd of famous Jnpnneso i.oldleis and stutes men homo of whom lived many hundred jems iiro Thise flsures nru rlid In RorReous ioh or In nrmor and look nh-V ' '2iRqe; fly .tgaagy, ill JcttnVlxl Paptr Carp Tloat Above Each House. solutely fearless; Indeed, some of them appear exceedhiRl) lleice of ermine, these help u boy to keep his countr heroes fiesh In mind Hesldea these ImiRes of people theie nre models of spirited horses nnd there nre toy arrows ar-rows nnd swords nnd speais that belonR to the olden time and guns of todai While the ihlldren look rtt these tiny ImiRts placed on i sort or platform at one end or th" room, the listen to ex-cltlnR ex-cltlnR stories told them by their parents or the brive men they no berore them In miniature There lire, many dainties for the children chil-dren tn ent on this festal day, but not of the sort American lads would tare for, exc pt, pcrhips, the suRar wafers The hits of raw tlsh, with bean sauce poured over them, and the unsweetened unsweet-ened custard w Mi slivers of fish In It nnd the silads would not nppei Inviting- nt nil, but one would enjoy see-Iiir see-Iiir how dnlntlly nnd prettll all the food Is served and how etch persons meal In set on tint floor before him tin a Ijcnueied traj Don t sou wish that the telestioiope wun so perfected that tonight we could call to Central," 'dive us Toklo, Japan Ja-pan And then we could put the transmitter to our cses und see the mornlne sun shining sin the Irises nnd the wistarias now abloom In Toklo parks nnd on the msns coloted carp tloJtlnK over the houses Uncle. Sam's Talks J&$&? With The, Boys. flood afternoon Uncle S lm You see we hive come BRiln, as sou said we mlRht We told our teachers how glad sou wero to talk to us, and how much sou told us nhoul Marionl. They raid It was fine W'e told somo other folks, too, nnd they Just said li'm' And now. Uncle ham, will sou tell tis nometMns about sour submarine boatn'' ' "With pleasure, my boss. Tour Uncle Pxmuel doesn't tell everythlnK he knows, any more than other folks do, hut j on souiiR Americans have ns rooI a rlelit as anybody to Informa. tlon about my little fleet or sub-mulnes sub-mulnes In the first place, the Idea or traveling under water Is not nt nil new Men hive Imitated evers kind of animal under tho sun It Is not surprising sur-prising then, to Und them Using to navlsrite the nlr like bird', or the sea like llshM. I'our hundied sears ago. when Bpaln was a great power, theio wai an attempt tn build a submarine craft at Toledo Kver slme then the Idei of a. great flih of wood or steel, with human brains, has been a most at racllve one" Dldn t Jules Verne figure It out pretts well. Uncle Sam In that dory of his 'Twents Thousand Leagues Under the t( i7' " That was a Rood slors and a fine exnmple of the fanciful side of submarine sub-marine navlsHlon I enjosed the sarn ins self, boss, but sou know a novelist can Jenvo some of tho knotts problems prob-lems to be guessed out lis hH leidern especlilly If the novelist happens tn he Jules Verm Hut to tome closer home, do sou know tint during the Ilevolu. tlonars w ir n Yankee from f'onnectl-cut f'onnectl-cut named Iluthnell built a submarine '" Tho Childicn WAtcJi tho rioating; FiU From th. Boot. hoit Just large enough to carrs- one man? It wns npeiated bs hnn I, and Ilushnell undertook to fnsten it toipedo to the bottom of n Ilrltlsh frigate In New York Harbor lie would likely have succeeded had not the torpedo crew Htruck a copper holt In the vessels ves-sels wooilen bottom It wns a Close chance but Just enough to condemn Ilushnell s bovt A little later our own Itobert Kullon offered a submailne IMint tn Napoleon Hompnrte, but could not convince him of Its value ' Sinew 1SSJ your Uncle Bnmuel has been serlousls Irslng to find out Junt what a submailne boat may he relied upon tn do If It tan snfels and quickly approach a hostile. rhlp, land a torpedo nnd get nwns, then thlrt Government Gov-ernment wants tn know It, ir sub. marine boats can destrns navies wo want more or them In 1S10 we accepted ac-cepted one of the boats deslgnerl by Mr Holland, and liked tt pn well thit wo ordered six othetn All but one are completed . 'This tspe of lioat is as round ai a stovepipe, tapering toward the ends It Is nenrls twelve feet In diameter and about sixty-three feet long It iir-rles iir-rles a ga.ollne engine of 160 hor$e-powei, hor$e-powei, an electric motor nnd several tanks of air with a preseuio of 2non pounds to the square Inch The qmntlts of gasoline carried Is RV) ral-lons ral-lons considered sullhlent for a vovajp? of Mine) miles The gasoline engine Ii used for surfneo salting apd the en Rlne while thus running chirges the storage batteries When the boat goes under, the Risollne engine la stopped and the marhlners Is geared tn the electilc motor. Now, perhapn you bright little fellows ran tell me what that Is for" ' Hure, Undo Sim' Anything th tt burns up-w up oj,Ren, Just like breathing does The electric engine can run without oxjgen, and that leaves the cnnlpressAd nr for the crevv Hut, saj. Untie Ram, what becomes of the air that has been hreathed?' I 'Well fortunately, bienthed nlr la a kind of ris lather heivler than pure nlr. and ' Oh, ses. we remember: It Is carbon dioxide, nnd It sinks to the floor" "Hlght. boss, nnd our engineers rind thnt they can eaelly pump It nut Into the sen Hy doing that and drawing graduilly on the supply of fresh air the boat could stay under water several sev-eral ilas.i nnd havn as good nlr lis sou have In sour tthooliooms Lust November, No-vember, while a sovcro storm wns raging, lho submarine Kulton swam to tho hottom of Pcconlc Ilay, and was under water fifteen bourn In perfect quiet. The speed of these boats on the surface Is seven knots Hut perhaps I ought to explain how much a knot Is" 'Oh, we know that. A knot Is BOCO feet, a mile Is E280 feet. Bp there sou nie Uncle Bam ' 'Rood enough, boss Now let me tell sou that tho operation of these boats Is very simple. To submerge them. Iirge tnnks on tho under pile are pumped full of sea water, and the horizontal rudder nt the stern are set tn steer lown The helmsman has a giuge rlgit In fiont of him to rhow Just how o he Is, nnd n compass to show In t direction he Is going To retuin the surfam the tanks are Hlmply emttled by the uso of compressed com-pressed nlr, nJ the rudders axe et the oihu was That HOund,s very well but It Isn't nil plain sailing, even foi a submailne The Invtuiu she gets entirely under water she becomes un-meady, un-meady, Bhe Is like a rallor on land or a landsman at sea She either wants to sit on her stern or stand on her nose. We can keep her from roltlne, but . inkee wit Ins bun .orelv til d to ke p her Mi mti the long wnv Perhaps the gnatest dliruulls of all Is how to give thi big steel fleh esea that can see To be useful In w ir she must see without being seen The eleitrlc las des not mnko the water tianspirnt Ilesldei" the Hub scout has to keep dark ins wns Buhmailnis have not been tried set In a real tlcht hut thej nre built with n low lonnlng towel nnd In an ait i k the boit would lift this Just above tbe eurrute for a peep It would th n dive again and lerhnps lome up for another peep nearer lis ononis, until It mine within tori edo dlslnme So ninll a target ns the conning tower appearing unexpecledlj, nnd for a f-w neionds onl would be n very dim nit shot The craft lutiles the imp dora In her no.e nnd nn Ihlow them erfei. tlvelv under water "01 irds Uncle Kim have other nations built submarine bonl''" Kianie his built more thin we have Her boats nre pretts mil h on the same plan ixiept thst some of Ihem have a tube leaching up to the surrnci with a camera there to thtmv an Image down the tube Inilde the boat This Is ton rancy a devhe ror sour Uncle him My rrlend lohnny Ilull iirt-d to put hli tongue In his iheek when ans one sild subnnrlnes, but I notke he Is building Ihem now too One thing Is pure, with two or Iliree good, lively submarine there toiilil In. no suih thing ns blockading a hirbor liven one at I- mtbigo would hive unholtled the Hpnnlsh fleet In short order " -,'T!,a.n 5n" Unclc bam- "",nl ' Well tell our teichers tint Hittmlay ,"" "" -hooldiy In tho week (lood bs. |