Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-28

on a series of experiments in maxim
photographs both by the infra-re and
the ultra violet invisible rays. Prof.
Woods account of these experiments.
"A New Departure in Photography"
their results, and their possibilities,
will be published in the February Cen
tury. with reproductions of Q number
of photographs illustrating some of the
most interesting results gained by his
experiments with invisible light.
The Art Of the Cartoonist.
One thing Is certain; in order to
Obtain successful result very care
full observation is necessary whether
drawing from Nature or memory. In
studying subject, weakness or
strength of character should be grasp
ed first; but almost equally important
is to note every detail of dress-the
shape and pitch Of hat for instance
, for these are essential to the carl
catllre. elf-consciousness, and some
times nervousness, shows itself in var
ous ways. The fact is that few men
knew what they appear to be to others.
l have known a peer express an OBJ
lection to being drawn with spats, be-
cause ne Olu UOl COiSlucl theS AoONSN
well in a picture. although he always
wore them. Another, who had been
splendidly caricatured by Pellegrinl.
said to me: Il get the shivers when
l am in the room with that man ever
since he so grossly libelled me- II
there is one thing upon which l pride
myself it is my physique, and he mas
made mo bent and STOPPING" And
vet his lordships stoop was the first
thing one noticed about him.-"Spy'
in the February Strand.
n ia well to keep in mind the central
fact that there Is more than one kind
of business failure. The first, and what
might be called the only true, failure
in business from statistical stand
pont is that where a person fails ow-
ing money to others. This is the tail-
ure in which the business world is real
~ Interested. because in it is involved
the loss of other peoples money. The
failure merely to succeed. and the
temporary or permanent withdrawal or
the failing trader with only the loss OF
his own capital. cannot have the inter-
est for the community at large that
would follow if the failing trader mad
lost some other PERSONS money besides
his own. For the first kind of failure
there is usually public record of some
kind which can be statistically meas
ured: for the second there is really no
record at all. and the unfortunate busi-
ness mariner sinks without the tradi-
tiCnal ripple. AS regards the latter
sort of failure. it is we'll to remember.
too. the old saying regarding square
pegs and round holes. A man may fail
to succeed several times. yet ultimate
ly v in in another limo of business, and
some of the most conspicuous final
successes in business have sometimes
met with these temporary discourage
ments-From Frank Grcene's "Busi
ness Success and Failure" in the Mid
winter Century.
\ Perhaps the most interesting archae-
illogical discovery made on the north
coast of Alaska mas a relation to the
present methods of personal decoration
now used by the natives OF Alaska the
the men. The present custom is that
when a boy is fourteen or sixteen
wears Of age holes are pierced in his
lower liz, one below each corner of the
mouth A small wooden plug is at
frst inserted to keep the hole from
growing together. and month by month
bigger and bigger plug is used. till
finally the OPENINGS are half an inch
in diameter. At this point the young
man begins TO wear stone or ivory
nlrgs These ornaments are put in
rom the irstt'e ordinarily as one might
insert n button into shirt front. U.s.
CGlly the two buttons worn are each
Vt Il different sort. while sometimes on
~ one of the holes is filed, and in
summer men are occasionally met
with who wear no buttons at all. When
a visitor is seen approaching, however.
the ornaments are always inserted. for
rne does not feel dressed without them.
In preparing fer sleep they are usually
removed.-N. Stefansson, in Harper's
Magazine for February.
On the Harper list of reprints is to
he noted Mrs. w. X. Clifford's Love
letters of a Worldly Woman" This
was one If the first books to popularize
the method. since become rather over
popular. of telling heart-story in a
succession of letters. AS one reader
said reminiscently. and that ole a
bachelor. They belong to the very
young, these stcries: for it is true that
a very young man generally falls in
love with an older woman. that the
emotion is believed at the time to rep
resent his entire future existence, and
that it usually lasts-the emotion
q about six MONTHS sa,v
MyAsoWn, State Of Florida has kept
pac$EithStle onwArds march prog
>, rssE The last census showed That. It's
population mad increased IS per cent