The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

rious mixture OF the Old and new order,
says the 81. Louis Globe Democrat. There
is a Maori princess to-day. for stance,
who was in her youth very handsome.
She and her cousin. whom she was to
marry won great praise many years ago
by swimming out 10 a wreck through "a
terrific sea carrying life line She is
quite a parsonage in society, dresses as
Well as the white women, does her hair
elegantly and has a beautiful house. But
if anything brings concourse of natives
10 her vicinity she at once becomes a
Maori and may be seen with the hair 50
lately beautifully coiffured tangled about
her face and shoulders and wreathed with
willow, cr0uching on the ground smoking
a pipe or joining the tangi, or nose-rub-
bling.
The public drinking fountains in New
York are to be closed for the season, hav-
ing proved a great success. The water
commissioner makes this statement re-
garding the service rendered: ION Aug.
l, with an average temperature OF 50 de-
srees, a record was kept of the number
of persons who either drank at or took
water away in vessels from tWenty-one
of our cold water fountains, two of which,
however, were in use only part of the day.
The total number of persons who patron
lied these fountains was SO 2S4, of whom
in capacity from one pint TO three gallons.
There are now thirty-three fountains in
service, all of which are heavily patron
lied. On the basis of the above figures,
the number of people who patronize them
on an average warm day is about $4,000,
of whom from 5000 to 5000 take water
away in vessels"
The advance of women as educators is
startlingly and pleasantly set forth in a
recent issue of the London Times. A
writer in the official organ of the Associa-
ton of School Boards has compiled some
interesting statistics showing how vast
ly, now, women teachers outnumber men.
1t says In 1873 there were 10S16 men,
certiticated and uncertificated, as against
12,S40 women. Last year these numbers
had reached a total of 1854 in the one
case, and of "a ,242 in the other. That is to
say, within the same period the increase
of women teachers has good deal more
than doubled that of the men. Concern
ing the numbers of pupil teachers-that
system of apprenticeship which Matthew
Arnold vigorously defended after it had
stood the test of forty years-the cornpari-
son is still more striking. For while in
1875 there were 10,s42 boys and IS .4O9 girls
in the ranks of the pupil teachers. in 1898
the former class had diminished by 1855
to 6,9T, and the latter had increased by
S02S 10 no fewer than 26,431. At this "a te
the ladies will soon have complete con-
troll of the educational problem"
The Rev. Bruce Brown, pastor of a
Christian Church in Chicago, believes that
the church must pattern somewhat after
the methods of the secret societies if it is
to be successful in its work says the New
York Post. The ultimate reason for the
existence of any organization, he argues,
Is that of service. If it supplies the wants
and sratifies the desires of men, it will
continue TO prosper This the secret So
cieties do, he says, appropr.ating thereby
many of the allotted functions of the
church, and circumscribing the church in
the sphere of its Influence. THE secret
society ministers to the wants of men and
women by becoming a social center and
means of a delightful fellowship. 1t has
no paid servants or ministers devoting
their lives to its advancement; it lives in
rented rooms, vet it continues to thrive,
while the church, with costly temples of
worship and high-salaried ministers, is
rapidly losing ground in the cities the
centers of influence. The secret society
has learned the secret of serving man. It
serves him in time of trouble; it cares for
him when he is sick, buries him when he
is dead, and cares for his widow and or
phans. This explains in part why there
are 5000 secret societies in Chicago and
only 500 churches. Men attend the lodge
because 1t is a pleasure, and attend the
church through a sense of duty. AT least
one night in the week men should find the
same sociability and enjoy the same free
dom in the church building that gentle
men have in the lodge room"
Speaking of freak photographs" said
an old newspaper man, reminds me of a
| singular little incident. About three years
ago If you remember, a story went the
rounds OF the papers that flying machine
had been seen maueuvering in the air at a
number of different places in the Middle
West. Some of the reports seemed to be
well authenticated, and it was certainly
strange that the same yarn should come
| from so many widely separated points.
| One day while the thing was being gener-
ally talked about, certain big journal re-
ceiyed a photograph from a town in Ne
braska showing an enormous cigar-shaped
machine caught in the top of a large oak
tree. According 10 the story that accom-
| panied the picture the aerial navigators
had attempted to land and fell foul of the
| oak. There is no doubt as to the genuine
ness of the tree in the photo, and it was at
! first thought that the machine had been
painted in which is an old trick with pic
| tOrial takers. When an expert was called
| in, however he declared positively that
! the picture had not been doctored, and on
| the strength of his opinion REPRODUCTION
| was printed. How the trick was done aft
eIWard leaked out. 1t seems the photogra-
! pher first took a picture of the oak and
| then took a separate picture of a small
! pasteboard model of a flying machine.
| which was only about foot long One of
the beauties about photography is that you
| can make everything the same tie, and
! the photo of the model was as big as the
photo of the tree. The model was then cut
out of the picture with pair of scissors
| and qGtp1 Of bo bra - a.
oak, and new photograph was taken
of the combination It was the most de-
ceptive looking job ] ever laid my eyes
| on
The failure or success of the young tree
for the first two or three seasons after
planting out depends largely on how this
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