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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-23
Teach Household Arts.

Several new schools of household
arts were opened in New York at the
beginning of the present school year.
In n of them girls who have not
taken a college cours can get prac.
teal training in cooking, the care OF
the home, house decorating, the keep.
Ing OF accounts, millinery, dressmak.
Ing and embroidery. Part time
courses are permitted so that the
training need not interfere with other
studies or work the girl may be carry.
ing On.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-23
Tricks Of the Trade.

Friend-What on earth are you do
ing to that painting Of yours?
D~auber-Can't you see? I'm rub
bling q piece of raw meat over the
rabbit in the foreground. Mrs. Al
shoddie will be here to-day, and when
she sees her pet dog smell Of that rab.
bit. she'll buy it-JudEe.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-23
Your Stationery

is your silent representative. If
you sell fine goods that are up
to-date in style and of superior
quality it ought to be reflected
in your printing. We produce the
kind that you need and will not
feel ashamed to have represent
you. That Is the only kind it
pays to send out. Send your or
ders to this Office.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-23
Phyllis and |.
Phyllis lives upon the hill

TIyiIlS dHO -
Phyllis lives upon the hill
Where the sun is glowing.
She has caught the roses flush
From the zephyr's blowing.
In a garden Phyllis sits
Preening to the breezes-
She is rich and Phyllis does
Anything she pleases!
I am just a lowly maid,
Neither rich nor witty.
Phyllis clothes are made In FraHcos
Mine are merely pretty.
She has lovers by the score
l have none but Billy.
He WILL have me, yes or no,
Sure or willy-nilly!
Phyllis does not know her heart
Does not trust the suers.
When a maid has wealth and place
She has ardent wooers! +
But a simple maid like me d
Knows, though willy-nilly,
There is no one in the world
Quite so nice as Billy!
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just as old Aristotle and Archimedes
labored of old. only with the advantage
over these ancient gentlemen of having
all the improved apparatus that Uncle
Sans gold can buy for him.
In 1904, under the clause of the Con-
stitution giving Congress the power to
fix the standards of weight and
measure a half million dollars was ap-
propriated with which to build a bureau
OF standards. The bureau was created
in response to a growing demand for
such an institution on the part of scien-
lists. engineers and representatives of
TIE National government itself. The
high order of accuracy required in mod
ern engineering practice and scientific re-
search made 1t more and more necessary
that manufacturers of scientific and en-
gineering instruments should possess cor
rect standards of length mass and vol
Ume, as we'll electrical thermometr.c
and optical standards, and be able to
have them reverted from time to time
IT was also important that any one en-
gagged In scientific or engineering work
could have his instruments and standards
tested when necessary. The old weights
and measures Office at Washington had
been equipped TO do some of the work
of Verifcation of standards of length
mass and volume for many years. but
for more delicate work on electrical
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all the company assembled, with the ex-
ceptlon OF Miss MarloWe, whose place
was taken by an understudy. We learned
the stage managers scorn and sarcasm
was not limited to supers but was di-
fecteo against all the actors who were
not up IN the proper representation Of
their parts. This fact was rather sooth-
ing to our wounded and ruf11ed feelings
II was a trying time for everybody, and
When the rehearsal was ended, which was
quite late, everybody was keyed UP to a
high pitch of nervousness, and several of
the women were in tears.
Throughout the rehearsal the manager
had used no book, he seemed to know
every part in the play and had every cue
at his tongues end
The play is very long, and I think this
rather remarkable. AS I looked at him
mopping the perspiration from his fore
mead with shaking hand. my feeling of
Indignation changed to pity as realized
the tremendous nervous strain under
which he was laboring with all the bur-
der. and responsibility of the production
on his hands.
When I returned at 7:3O in the evening
/ found some of the supers had gone on a
strike. 1t looked a little discouraging at
first. but things were Strengthened after
while. and while some left. the majority
stayed.
The dressing rooms allotted TO the eX-
ira women were way below stairs We
all dressed together in a long room which
was unfurnished except for few chairs,
long, wide shelf which ran around the
entire room and four or five mirrors. The
sordidnesS of the surroundings was in
strange contrast to the beautiful dresses
worn by the court ladies, which hung on
the wall. The white wigs worn with
these dresses hung beside them puffed
curl,a' and wreathed in roses.
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cD1VlpmIe Enan1R FoR. CELEBRATION QE5TAnpARD
<bAR5 AdDfE1E*5 hpoRrED Fkorr GENOA

the world to throw off the incubus of an
incoherent system Of weights and meas
ures whose only claim lies in the fact
that 1t is in general use.
In pyrometry. thermometry and high
temperature measurement, the bureau
carries on work of great Importance 10
both science and industry, especially as
instruments for high temperature meas
urement now figure largely i'm many man
ufacturng processes. The work is so far
perfected that now nearly every Instru-
ment used by the manufacturing world IS
tested here. The tests include thermom-
eters, electric lights, materials or con-
struction. glass volumetric apparatus and
weight and length measures.
A branch of the bureau that has come
rapidly to the front is the volumetric
glass testing laboratory. Here are tested.
and. if desir d, certified, all sorts of chem
ical glassware such as TASKS. pipettcs
and burettes. No section of the bureau
better typifies the growth of the fnstitu-
tion and the development of ideas In re-
gard to testing than this laboratory. The
methods in use in other Laboratories are
distanced by those in operation here. and
still further improvements in operation
are being made almost daily.
In order to put into operation the pure
food laws, recently enacted, it is neces-
sa,-v for the bureau of chemistry of the
Department of Agriculture to have abso-
lutely correct glassware. especially III
the matter ever gets to court, as mas ire
uuently happened in numerous attempts
to prosecute by the government For
this reason this laboratory is at present
very hard at work turning out large
quantities of standardized glassware.
which will be distributed all over the
country and be used to insure that We
get pure food.
A feature. unique in itself, but typical
of the "scientfic spirit prevailing here.
is the meetings which the scientific stan
holds in the lecture room twice a week
At these meetings are reported new things
in research work done at the bureau,
and current scientific articles of interest
are discussed. These meetings serve 10
bind the members of the bureau even
moro closely together.
Another interesting feature of the bu-
reau's work Is what might be called It's
publication department. Of course. the
idea of the whole institution is TO render
all the assistance possible to manufac-
turers and scientists the world over, ana
any letters of inquiry from such receive
prompt attention.
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11G1l RREcY1oN pAL ANcE c7howlNG c517TEn
@lESfGR1

liquid air and other gases, while another
building to be used to test matrials of
construction, costing nearly 100000. is in
the course Of erection at the present time
to the west of the trio.
1t is essential that the physical building
shall contain no engines or other machin-
cry which. would be likely to jar the in
struments Of high precision which it con-
tains. Consequently 1t is supplied with
heat. water. light and power by pipes and
mechanical building. Some of the ex-
periments conducted in the physical build
ing are so delicate that the elevator has
to be stopped to avoid all jarring. Here
ity of person affects to such an extent
that the observer is obliged to operate
them from the respectful distance OF
twenty feet by system of levers. If
one should balance one of these instru-
mentS, and then drop a very fine hair on
the scale pan. the balance would imme-
diately indicate the change in weight In
this building IS kept the standard clock
which is read and corrected to hundredths
of second.
!:
To the layman such extreme accuracy
may appear ridiculous. but today pre-
and it is said that splitting hairs is
second nature to the employe of the
bureau Of standards. In fact, every
thing is SO exact in this modern ITEM
pie of science" that the investigators
work in an artificial atmosphere By
an elaborate heating and ventilating
system and by the help of double win
dows, protecting the laboratory from the
outside atmosphere, the rooms are kept
at standard temperature. The humid
ity may also be altered in some Of the
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really is. Instead of a single unit OF
weight and length with multiples and sub
multiples having ratios Of ten. we have
OF units and all kinds of odd
ratios for the multiples and submultiples.
Let me remind you of some of the alb
surdities of the present system. First
recall how much simpler and more conven-
lent our system OF coinage is than the
English system. Nothing could be sim
pier than the expression Of values In dol
lars and cents; the use of pounds. shil
lings and pence being cumbersome in
comparison. because of the odd ratios.
But our weights and measures are far
more complicated than the English sys-
tenn of coinage We weigh most mer-
chandise by avoirdupois weight gold and
silver by troy weight. medicines by
apothecaries' weight, diamonds by dia
mond carat weight. We have dry quarts
short tons. and hundredweisht Is not
100, but 112 pounds.
Goal is usually purchased at wholesale
by the long ton. and retailed by the short
ton. a bushel sometimes means 21JO.5
cubic inches. and sometimes it means a
certain number OF pounds weight of a
commodity. The American bushel is de-
rived from the old English Winchester
bushel. but the legal English bushel of the
On the contrary. the English gallon is
much larger than the American gallon, the
difference being about 20 per cent We
measure wood by the cord, stone by the
perch, earth by the cubic yard. More
over, among the different states of the
Union are considerable differences in Gus
tom and legal equivalents. We are Of
course. much better off than the coun-
tries of Europe were a century ago, but
the difference is all too small.
''Our medieval system of weights and
measures is, however. too deeply rooted
to be easily displaced. But the metric
system is being used more in this country
than is generally realized and our rapidly
growing foreign trade is bringing it more
than ever to the attention of manufacture
ers and merchants. In England strong
effort is being made to adopt the metric
system. with the hope that ultimately
decimal system Of currency may also be
Put into operation. The English colonies
are even more progressive than the mother
country. and strong influences are at work
to secure the decimal system throughout
the British empire 1t will be greatly to
the advantage Of the United States to
keep abreast of this movement. and not to
be the last among the civilized nations of
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laboratories by the use Of brine coils to
any desired degree of dryness. This is
not only for the comfort of the investi-
gators during a Washington summer.
but also to enable certain experiments
to be carried on Independent of atmos-
pheric conditions and to preserve from
rust and deterioration many valuable
instruments in use during the summer
months. The air is filtered before be-
ing sent through the laboratories to re-
move all dust. AS the air is constantly
being drawn out and replenished there
is no chance for the moisture produced
by the respiration Of the workers or by
evaporation to remain.
In one vault the temperature does not
vary one-twentieth of one degree during
the whole twelve months. Here the pri-
mary standards of weight and length are
kept. The room can be entered only
through steel double doors. In addition
to the national standards, made under
the direction Of the international COM
mission of weights and measures, it
contains such historic standards as the
old committee meter" dating back to
the founders OF the metric system. the
and the bronze copy of the imperial yard
of Great Britain. In this vault it is ne
lieved that almost ideal temperature and
atmosphere conditions prevail. so that
the standards remain at a constant tenn
perature and are not exposed to changes
which might alter their molecular ar
rangement and thus change their length
Here are kept the length and mass
standards. The former is used to correct
This Is one of the oldest pieces of the
bureaus equipment. and it's history should
De FAMILIAR to every American citizen.
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when she made the touching and tender
appeal to US to spare the aristocrat whom
she loved. When she spoke the magic
was wrought by which we poor awkward,
stupid supers ceased to be supers and be-
came peasants of Nantes. blood-blinded
and ignorant, but adoring. worshiping
her. We would have died for her. have
killed for her-we did more, We spa, the
hated aristocrat for her.
*
l have seen Miss Marlowe many times
and in many parts, but 1 never knew she
was SO beautiful. She had very little
makeup" on. Her face was pale, and
her wonderful eyes which l can compare
only to the sun sparkling on moving sea-
water. were bediamonded with tears. 1,
for one. went off that scene thrilled to the
heart by the pathos and realism of the
acting.
In the courtroom scene l was in the box
at the back center of the stage. and
could look directly at the audience Every
box and seat was filed. but the people
seemed unreal and shadowy. They sat
so still they seemed like puppets. or paper
dolls painted against curved back
ground. We on the stage were real but
they only shadows of people.
When the performance was over that
night the stage manager came down and
congratulated the supers on the good
work they had done. This had a Won
derful effect on us. and all hurt feelings
were instantly healed.
l do not personally understand why all
stage people. even those who speak only
one or two lines. should look with such
contempt on the poor super: but can
testify that there is at least one other
lady i'll Miss Marlowe's company besides
herself who had sympathy and feeling
for the extras. This. lady. who was
dressed as an aristocrat. neither yelled at
us nor pushed us aside as she passed
through our crowded ranks to go on the
stage. but smiled at US and sad both
please and thank you in the sweetest
way.
When. after the performance was over,
had, with a liberal use of cold cream.
scraped the ''make-up' off my face. |
went home. thrilled with the excitement
of the evening and the glamour of the
footlights. and wondering earnestly how
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to a point at the outer edge She said
this made the eye seem long and full.
No doubt 1t looked attractive to the au-
dience, but a close view was startling,
to put it mildly.
When. by the magic aid of the make
up box" 1 had been transformed into
quite a pretty peasant girl with bonnet.
rouge and a tri-colored cOckade, sat on
a trunk in the wardrobe woman's room
and talked to Mrs. Dixon. the wardrobe
woman, quite the dearest old dear l have
met in long time. She was born within
sound of Bow bells, and has the most
fascinating cockney accent imaginable.
She has been in the profession all her
life. playing all sorts of parts with differ
with Mary Mannering, of whom she
seemed very fond. She spoke of Miss
Mannering as Poor Dear and her little
daughter Elise as Little Dear. She told
me many pretty stories Of Poor Dear
and Little Dear, and with a real feeling
and affection that was charming.
All the while we were talking men and
women We're coming in for all sorts of
things. Theodore Hamilton. the sterling
old actor who had retired on his honors,
but who had come at Miss Marlowe's re-
quest to create the part of the old noble
man, came in to have a button Sewed on.
He looked like an aristocrat, and was very
much Of a real gentleman besides, so Mrs
Dixon said.
When the company goes to New York
next week there is to be a much aug
mented mob. and for that reason Mrs.
Dixon was piling many perfectly new
clean clothes into bundle for the wash
erWOman to take home and wash dirty
SO they would not look too new. She saws
she gets the effect wanted by washing
them in muddy water
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When l arrived most Of the women
were in various stages of makeup a
process l watched with interest. Some
of the girls were quite pretty and they
were extremely kind in Offering to lend
me cold cream. powder, lip salve, and
even a hare's foot
One girl. who has once been on the road
with a company, made up her eyes in a
way to strike terror to the beholder's 8
SOUL She first blue penciled the entire
upper lid and then drew thick black
line round the eye. gradually curvinS in
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ThEKslottETEa 6nRANToR

standards. thermometers ana pyroheters
and many other kinds of apparatus Euro
pean laboratories had to be relied upon.
When the bureau of standards was
built President Mckinney placed in
charge DIR. Samuel W. Stratton of the
about him a democratic corps of scien-
fists.
The result is satisfactory to remark
able degree. On Pierce's Mill road. just
west OF Connecticut avenue extended. in
a quiet grove Of trees, secluded from the
din of traffic and the noise of the
streets of Washington, which would in
terfere with the workings of the precise
instruments, sits one of the tribunals of
the American scientific world.
There is no time clerk to watch the
members of the bureau to see that they
do not steal any of Uncle Sans time.
1t is not necessary. At 4:3O the closing
time. one does not see an eager. jostling
procession of employees. glad to leave
their work and get home! On the con-
trary. all the members Of the scientific
staff are anxious to spend more than
the required time on their work. They
are genuine seekers after TRUTH" and
have subjugated all other interests to
the achievement of that end. Here men
OF SCIENCE WOTk anu give Tic TcSullS VI
their life work to the furtherance of SCI
ence. The work these men do is usually
research work. most of the practical test
ing being done by young ambitious. EN-
bryo scientists. who are striving to attain
place in the scientific world.
At the present time the bureau consists
of three buildings, the physical building,
the mechanical building and the low tenn
perature laboratory. The three build
ings are connected by a system CT tun-
nels, which the employees use in bad
weather, thus obviating the necessity of
going outdoors at all.
The chief of the trio is the physical
building. containing the physical labora-
tories. library and offices. 1t faces the
mechanical building. which includes also
the instrument shop and the power plant
Near the latter building is the low temper
ature laboratory, where interesting re-
search work is being carried on with
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! a. secluded grove
of great oak trees.
on a high hill a
few miles north
west of Washing
ton. is an institu-
ton where science
rel e n 8 supreme
and where the
true scientist
works, unmindful
of the whirl and
tot. of the city.
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.,arged with agreeing upon an interna-
tiona meter and kilogram. which are
French standards. but now used by
scientists the world over. Two of these
meters and kilograms were made for each
country represented in the International
conference. and they were drawn by lot
In 1893 the Secretary Of the Treasury
named those drawn by our representative
as the fundamental standards of weight
and length for the United States, and our
yards and pounds are compared with
them. One set of these standards has
always been stored away. while the other
reposes in this constant temperature vault
at the bureau Of standards.
The length standard is a bar Of platinum
alloy, whose cross section is X-shaped. 1t
cost $500. 1t is kept inclosed in plush
in japanned cylinder Of tin. which. in
turn. is incased in a long wooden box.
When a measuring rod is to be compared
with this standard. the two are placed side
by side in clamp. over each end Of which
is telescope Through this the gradua-
tfons on the two are compared with an
exactness that is more than hair-split-
ting.
The weight standard Is a small cylin-
der of the same metal used in the length
standard. 1t and its duplicate cost $1,000
apiece. They are kept in double bell
jars, protecting the precious weights from
dust.
The naked hand is never allowed to
touch either of these Standards. When
a weight is to be standardized it is taken
into constant temperature room and
placed on one pan of a delicate balance.
the standard weight resting olp the other.
The balance is incosed in glass and the
weights are allowed to remain overnight
to attain the same temperature. All ma
nipulations of this balance are made
from a distance of twenty feet by means
Of long brass levers. Should tile operator
approach nearer. the heat Of his body
would alter the equilibrium. The deli
cate indicator scale of the balance is
read through a telescope.
This same degree of precision Is exer
cised in the work of the bureau in the
testing of all other apparatus Submitted.
and it is little to be wondered at that
the decision of such an institution is final
In the scientific world.
Lately the bureau has endeavored to
secure greater uniformity in weights and
measures throughout the country by CO.
operating with and advising the state
and local sealers and inspectors of weights
and measures, and three conferences of
suci1 officials have been held at the bureau.
The WORK with measures of length varies
from the verification of test pieces and
gauges used in engineering to the COM
parison and graduation of standard bars.
as has already been done for the govern
ments of Canada, Japan, Chile and
Mexico.
Naturally the members of the bureau
are in favor uf legislation compelling the
use Of the metric system by the govern
ment. Prof. Edward b. Rosa, head
physicist at the bureau. when approached
on this subject said:
Few people realize how needlessly COM
plex our system of weights and measures
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When the peasant girls were called /
went up the narrow stairs with the other
women. and was presently on the stage.
one of a hooting. bowling, jeering mob.
l was too much interested TO have stage
fright and too much absorbed in the
scene to even remember the fact that this
was the first time l had been on pub
lie stage.
When Miss Marlowe was brought in as
the Goddess of Reason / had an oppor-
tunity of seeing at close range this beau
tiful and marvelously gifted woman.
was standing directly in front ae her