The Washington herald., 1909-10-12

Girls for LUNCH Room.


Girl students are trained at Simmons /
College, in Boston, to plan and manage
lunch rooms This surely Is an undertake
ing to meet a long-felt want The city
customers who undertake TO satisfy their
cravings Of hunger in the middle Of a
business day know well the disagreeable
shocks 10 their senses that they must
endure. Not the least Of these is the
spectacle of frowsy unkempt men at
serving counters whose very appearance
is enough to make even a hardened Gus
toner revolt at receiving food through
such a medium. The movement for the
sanitation Of lunohrooms might well be
extended TO these slouchy servitors II is
announced that the number Of girls TAX
ing the lunch room course" at the Boston
school is increasing. They are taught
also how TO cook 10 buy, TO figure profit
and loss, and how 10 manage assistants.
Such training should make them useful 10
proprietors as well as 70 patrons Of these
necessary places Of refreshment.
Beneficial Ond-making.
The importance OF road-bullding in civ
iiization will receive another illustration
in the completion OF 800 miles OF mac
adsmized highways in The Philippines.
These bring insulated barbarians into
contact with populous centers. This is a
modern application Of the familiar policy
/ OF Rome. whose roads were built so well
: that at many points they are to-day
available for traffic. They penetrated the
rayless gloom OF German forests they
crossed on viaducts the gullies OF the
! Apennines, they provided a firm footing
! FOR the legions across the marshes Of the
/ Iberian peninsula, and made a straight
path through many a Wilderness. Just
as in our day civilization IN a Lew coun-
\ try huddles close 70 the steel rails and
the whistle of the locomotive, so in the
/ DAYS Of Horace and Virsi. the GothV
and the Vandals focked to their vii
lagos, and came 70 the meeting OF the
ways not merely 20 right the Roman
legionary. but to learn OF The ''mercator'
what the rest Of the world was like be-
yond their bristling mountains and rock
bound estuaries. Thus n this day the
head-hunters and bandits Of the Philip
pines VIII be taught the arts OF peace.
But the work. It is estimated, viii still
require seventeen years for completion.
The benefits OF similar worn in Porto
Rico have become apparent
4 Wonderful Clock.
An electric clock without hands Is ex.
hibited in Chicago. Its pendulum weighs
more than 1900 pounds. It contains 5.4s'
colored bulbs and over a mile Of wire
The minutes are indicated by sixty serie.
OF lights, each series containing thirty.
two globe covered bulbs, radiating from
an ornamental centerpiece TO the outel
edge OF the dial Shorter rows Of DIFF
ferent colored lights indicate the hour
and these change their position twelvl
times during each sixty minutes. or onct
every five minutes The seconds ar
shown by sixty lights placed az eQua
distances around the extreme outer edg
OF the face. The hour figures are three
feet high. outlined IN colored lights. Eacl
| second the illumination 81 the outer circl
OF light moves forward one bulb, an
when the dial has been entirely circled
, the lights indicating the minute also ad
vance, and the hour hand, formed b.
lights, makes It's slow Journey at five
. I rnintrta intervals