Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1909-06-17


universal.
Says the Pittsburg Gazette-Times:
Those who sigh for world peace can.
not charge. at least, that the subject
Is being neglected at the present time.
Through variety of active agencies
IT Is engaging the earnest thought OF
the world and there Is no cause for
encouragement in the fact that the
advocates Of peace are unable TO
agree regarding the best method of
bringing about that happy condition
1t Is claimed that recent statistics
go to show that city life agrees
with the dark-complexioned person.
Cities are atmospherically dense. and
the atmosphere clings to the hair and
complexion. There are no genuine
blondes. for example. in Pittsburg.
snarls the Providence Journal. The
air settles on the golden hair and
turns 1t muddy, or. at least. renders
1t piebald. Most cities these days are
more or less like Pittsburg. Soft coal
did IL. Blondes who wish to STAY so
should remain In rural districts. Only
brunettes are calculated by nature for
life In a modern city.
Most people see an object when
they think Of Il. They can see before
their eyes a geometrical drawing Or
the figures on a chessboard when they
think Of them, explains the Detroit
News-Tribune. In order to think Of all
most men make use of images. though
they may be Of different kinds. Thus.
one man when he thinks Of Italy sees
Just the printed word: another sees
the country's outline on a map; anoth-
er may see the country spread out be-
fore him with its villages and towns
slumbering In the plains. Psycholo-
gists are beginning to classify the diff.
ferent aids or images OF which men
make use. Some. for example. hear
the words Of their thought within
themselves; others read them. as II
the words were written generally In
black on a white ground.
A French scientist has discovered
q ",
AYERS the New York Press. The Arc.
tic regions form the base. the Antarc-
tic the apex and the Atlantic. Pacific
and Indian oceans form three faces.
The fourth remains to be discovered
This pyramid theory has at least the
value of novelty. For a considerable
time IL has been known that there
was certain conical contour 10 the
earth, but TO be told that we live on
a pyramid is rather startling. First
we were taught that "the earth is
round and like a ball seems swing.
ing in the air" Then the "oblate
spheroid" was submitted for the ball
and finally great scientific surveys
were worked out upon "polyconic pro-
jections Of Clarke's spheroid." OF
course. II is just as respectable to live
on a pyramid as on ball, a spheroid
or cone; but we had rather not
make new change until we have
more light on the subject, IL II Is
just the same to the French scientist.
Defenders Of tipping. together With
those who simply endure II. will get
small comfort from a recent report
of the state superintendent of en-
ployment agencies In Illinois, He dis
covers that, in Chicago. change left
with employees In hotel and theatre
cloakrooms does not stay with them.
even In part. but must all be turned
over to the boss who gets them their
Jobs. One man. says the New York
Evening Post. has the contract to CD
crate the cloakrooms OF a large mum
Der Of the foremost hotels and the
aires. The boys under him receive a
fixed wage OF s. to 81 a week. and II
their gratuities do not average up to
q certain standard, they are dismissed.
The superintendent estimates that.
with so boys turning In an average OF
IS a day. the contractors profits
amount to as much as $1,000 week
This TALES with New York expert
ence. II was discovered &C the time
Of the hotel porters' strike last year
that most OF these men worked for
contractor. and turned In to him the
tips received. u not this natural
consequences o. the unregulated and
extravagant habit Of tipping that has
grown up In this country7