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Show Wanted to Know Papa's Status Little Freddy at the breakfast table, ifter having tucked away one piece of cake, turned to his father and said, '-May I take another piece of cake, papa?" Father, with years of training to his credit, answered, "You'll have to ask mamma about that, Freddie." Whereupon sonny piped up, "Haven't you anything to say at all, papa':" Remove Grease 3efore Lacquering. It is possible to protect polished metal surfaces by applying several coats of cold lecquer or celluloid varnish. var-nish. The lacquer should be applied , ivlth a brass camel's hair brush, after the metal has been highly polished. 1 There must be no trace of grease on ' the brass or other metal wheu It Is lacquered. Unkind Classification. Rosamund always Insists on running the games, so one day .Teannette got tired of It, and came upstairs, mad as could bo, threw down her hat, and said : "1 Just am not going to play With her any more, for she never will iet me be the mother. She always makes me be the papa or the dog." Telling Age of Mistletoe. It is a comparatively easy matter to learn the age of growing mistletoe, as each shoot sends off two new shoots each year, and by counting the joints from the root to the tip of any branch the number of years the mistletoe has lived may be computed easily. Old-Age Elysium The old man's Elysium is Rutlandshire, Rutland-shire, England, where for every 100,000 boys born 1,375 reach the age of ninety-five. ninety-five. The number of women who survive sur-vive to this age is 907. Rutlandshire Is the one county where men live longer than women. Quick Aid Prevents Fire. It is well to keep a small fire-extinguisher convieuent to the kitchen as a first aid to possible fire. These extinguishers are of great value when the fire has first started, but are useless use-less after It has made headway. Just as with a first-aid kit, their value lies in their being at: your service at a moment's mo-ment's notice. Human Weights A woman forty-three years old, five feet five inches tall, should weigh 143 pounds, and a man forty-eight years old, whose height is five feet seven sev-en inches, should weight 156 pounds, according to a table compiled by the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors and the Actuary Society of America. Remarkable Prehistoric Caves Tunnels and passages, measuring about twenty miles in length, and cut in the solid chalk 90 feet below the surface, are to be found In the famous fa-mous prehistoric caves at Chislehurst, Kent, England. This May Not Be a Discovery Egotism is like money. We always think someone else has too much of It i Lucky for Anne! Salesman (lately promoted to antique an-tique department) "This chair, madam, ma-dam, was originally made for the duke of Buckingham, who gave It to Anne of Austria. We're selling quite a lot of them." London Bystander. True National Glory The true glory of a nation does not consist in the extent of its dominion, In the fertility of the soil, or the beauty of nature, but rather in the moral of Intellectual pre-eminence of the people. Sir John Lubbock. GOOD ROADS REDUCE PRICES Poor Transportation Facilities Help Keep Up High Cost of Living Liv-ing in Big Cities. One of the solutions of the high cost of living problem lies in good roads. Poor transportation facilities form a strong factor in keeping prices up. With a system of well paved national na-tional highways transportation conditions condi-tions would be improved to such an extent that the cost and time of bringing bring-ing food and merchandise to the consumer con-sumer would be materially cut. Bay State Auto Law. In a campaign to make the roads of Massachusetts safe and comfortable comfort-able for night driving, automobiles from other states must have proper light equipment devices approved In that state before they are allowed within the limits of the commonwealth. common-wealth. Profitable Roadside Markets. Roadside markets have helped more :hnn one, farm family living on a much-Traveled much-Traveled state highway to add a neat little sum to its bank account. |