Show it I 0 0 e I 1 i POSTAGE and harmony I 1 remember when the letter postage rate was first reduced irom from th three c cents en tr hr to two in 1883 twice since then e it has been put back to the old figure once during the world war and now under the new revenue law beginning july ath the standard color tor for the ordinary letter postage stamp has been red tor for so long that uncle sam la is printing thousands of millions of new three cent stamps in red instead of the purple three cent stamps now in use and as wash 1 tons picture always appears on the most commonly used stamp the head of lincoln which now adorns the three gent cent stamp will be replaced by that of the father of ills his country I 1 knew one old lady now dead who never would use a two cent stamp on lher her letters she used mourning stati stall onery with a deep black border and the red color was inharmonious so she used three cent stamps because they were purple I 1 1 MONOCLES urist un watches telles the first man I 1 ever saw rearing a monocle died the other day john 0 milburn jr who came back from oxford to buffalo in the with a single glass stuck in one eye everybody laughed at him just as they did at walter burzey the first man I 1 ever saw wearing a wrist watch folks in america had the idea that mon monocles ocies and wristwatches wrist watches were signs of effeminacy the tha tact fact Is that both the monocle leand I 1 and the alie wrist watch are strictly military device sWe got familiar with the handy bandy wrist watch during the war and nobody laughs lauell now at a man who wears one put but few yet realize that the monocle was invented by an officer of the english guards more than a hundred ye years are a ago 0 when the order was issued that no officer me might wear spectacles many officers wre wore spectacles many officers with one detective defective eye found themselves in trouble until one of them had the bright idea of a single eyeglass eye glass which could not by tiny any stretch of the imagination be called spectacles why a man who has hai only one bad eye should have to wear two lenses has always puzzled me anyhow BACHELORS in high places only one president ot of the united states has been a bachelor james buchanan never married presidents tyler ellmore benjamin harrison roosevelt and wilson were each married twice how ever which brings up the average governor albert C ritchie ot of maryland is the only man I 1 think ot of in recent years even seriously considered as a presidential possibility who Is a bachelor it Is so unusual for a man to achieve a high position without the aid of a wife that the he few who have done so stand out another bachelor who got ahead in the world without feminine assistance was the late S avle warfield ld also a marylander lie he was mayor of baltimore and later president of the seaboard air line railroad there Is for most of us however no spur to ambition such as matrimony provides RUTH her fathers daughter the defeat of representative ruth bryan owen at the democratic congles 1 primary in florida removes a use tul ful and interesting personality from public life though I 1 hope only temporarily william J bryans daughter could hardly take any stand on prohibition than the dry position which she took and she was defeated for by a wet candidate like the good sport she Is mrs owen has offered to resign on december instead of sitting in the next session of congress as a lame duck I 1 feel sate safe in predicting that mrs owen Is not out of politics she takes to politics like a duck to water as might be expected of her fathers daughter end and she r e has won respect in washington and nd everywhere by her well balanced outlook on public affairs and the big high h intelligence she has brought to her public service SAWDUST and chemists have long known that sugar can be extracted from wood and out of sugar alcohol can be made the problem I 1 has bar been how to do it cheaply enough to I 1 compete with the other sources of alco hol hoi most of 0 the alcohol used in america for industrial purposes which Is many i times as much as has ever been used tor for I 1 beverage purposes Is manufactured manufacture el irom from molasses shipped in tanks from the I 1 sugar mills to the distilleries in germany the commercial production of alcohol from wood wastes by a new process which makes ethyl alcohol in stead of the poisonous methyl or wood alcohol Is proving successful twenty tons of sawdust and chips yield eight tons of sugar which furnishes 1300 gallons of alcohol at a cost of halt half a cent a quart W wiatt 1 th alcohol as cheap as gasoline the next step will be the development of internal combustion motors which will provide the worlds motive power when the oil supplies shall have been exhausted |