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ADDING he STEFFNEp"

committee of Treasury officials to inves-
tigate the matter. and 1t has just sub
mitted a favorable report.
tee. tells me that its experiments show
that certainly 60 per cent. and probably
50 per cent, OF our redeemed paper money,
now destroyed by. the Treasury, can be
laundered and reissued in the form of
clean. stiff and smooth notes, nearly or
often quite as good as new. He showed
me some Of the freshly laundered notes,
once fimsy, creased and badly soiled, but
now hardly distinguishable from brand
new ones fresh from Director Ralph's big
paper money factory. Mr.. Pearce who is
chief OF the division of loans. further es-
Inmates that notes can now be laundered
by the government at q cost Of one-tenth
of i cent per note. AS It now costs 80
cents to issue each new note, the money
laundries will save IA cents on each note
washed. ironed and reissued. II the
laundries can turn out 10000 notes a day
Of 1 cent per note, which would mean a
saving Of 1-3 cents on each piece of
laundered paper money. Whether paper
money now turned into the subtreasuries
is to be reissued or destroyed Is now de-
cided by the money handlers. Notes that
look almost new they reissue, but that
which is partly crumpled or soiled they
stack in bundles Of 100, which are placed
under a knife and cut in halves, each
package OF halves being shipped to the
Treasury at Washington on separate
days. this being a protection against
train hold-upS. In the Treasury the
haEed notes are put into a big mace
rator. which reduces them to pulp while
dignified committee looks on.
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extent and all others who have stuoieo
the matter agree that it will be tremen-
dous-wili save the government perhaps
a million dollars annually.
The money laundry scheme from start
to finish Is the invention and creation OF
J. e. Ralph. the progressive director OF
the bureau of engraving and printing,
who has already devised several inseni-
or,s devices for lessening the cost of man
ufacturing paper money and stamps.
Lately, when he proposed to launder and
reissue the greater part Of our redeemed
paper money, now chopped UP and boiled
into pulp. the Secretary of the Treasury
was sufficiently impressed to appoint a
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The InfaIIibIe Lady.

1OHN CORBIN. author and playwright,
} said recently that he had resigned the
post Of literary director Of the New The
alter because he disliked the superior air
that such offices carry with them.
You decline play after play he said.
you make enemy after enemy. You
pretend to be infallible. and the pose
OF infalnbility is an ugly and unpopular
one.
Nobody. you know. wants, to be Ike
Blynn's wife.
That wife Of yours said a friend
OF Blynn's alphabetically, never adj
mfts making a mistake, does she?'
oh! said Blynn, with a bitter SMILE
she occasionally allows that she made
one mistake when she married me, but
she won't admit even that outside the
family circle d"
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The Country Weekers.

I EROME s. McWADE, addressing .
} children's country week association
Of Duluth. cited many striking similes
and metaphors that had been used b.
slum children in unaccustomed pastoral
surroundings.
"A boy" he said, had his attention
called to the sunset
Look! said the missionary. Isn't the
sunset beautiful-the round, yellow su~
sinking in the midst OF white clouds|
It's fine, the boy agreed Its rust
like fried egg
In the same party was little girl.
She rose at dawn one morning, and her
eye was caught by the sparkle of the
dew on the grass.
It's hotter'n ] thought she said
The grass is all covered with presspira-
ton"
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He's Always Right.

7 ORD NORTHCLIFFE, who began
II life as a poor reporter. now owns
the London Times, the Daily Mail. the
Daily Mirror. the Evening News. ana
a score or two of British weeklies ana
magazines.
Lord Northcliffe. on his last visit to
New York, was reproached because two
of his newspapers advocated diamet-
ricaliy opposite views.
But the young millionaire journalist
was quite ready with his defense.
Are there not" he said, two sides
a right and a wrong, to every ques-
ton? Well, how. without two papers,
can I be always right"
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An Auto Charm.

A automobile whisked past the Frank
"a lin School while the scholars were at
their midday play. Instantly every child
OF them ceased playing. moistened the
end OF his little thumb, pressed the
thumb firmly into the open palm of the
other hand and then smote the pressed
palm with chubby fist This done, they
all returned to their games.
What's that?" asked a mystified pass
er-by. AN incantation?'
It's charm" replied a little girl with
two two golden yellow pigtails braided down
time you see an automobile and press
IT IN your hand and then stamp 1t with
your fist, then, when you do that a
Thousand times you will find something
The charm will make you find something
when you've done 1t that many times:
that's the way, you know. Last week
found" The little lass stopped her tale
as another motor car went honking by
and solemnly performed the mystic rites
of the charnl-''Last week found a rub
Der dolly that would squeak. and one time
Susie found a."
But Just then the school bell rang and
the pigtails disappeared.
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bath and feeds them to pair Of big rub
Der rollers held tightly together by weight
pressure. And, after passing through
these, they are dropped into a conveyor.
about ten feet long. heated by coils. BY
the time they have reached the end OF
this they are thoroughly dry.
And finally comes the ironing process.
Forty notes are piled one upon the other
and placed between top and bottom lay
ers of press board" the leatherlike
glazed cardboard which is used in making
the flexible covers Of blankbooks. Thus
put I'D in packs, the newly washed. sized
and steriized notes ere passed between
heavy steel rollers, which subject them to
a pressure OF thirty tons and squeeze each
stack as 1t passes through to the thinness
Of pasteboard. This process irons out all
wrinkles, closes up all creases and I'M
parts a finish hardly distinguishable from
that of brand newness.
There has long been a loud popular
some individuals have resorted to washing
their greenbacks in their homes before
handling them. Thus l heard from
government official today the story OF an
old lady in Massachusetts who long made
1t q practice to wet all soiled greenbacks
which she received, and then spread them
upon a plate of glass that held them fiat
while she scrubbed first one side and then
the other side with a brush wet with soap
and ammonia water.
Dirty money has long been nuisance,
especially in communities far from the
Treasury and subtreasuries. to which In
situations banks or individuals can take
soiled notes and exchange them for new
bills without expense. But away out In
the northeast and southeast and through
the west, until the gold belt Is reached,
filthy notes accumulate because the banks
have to pay from 60 to IS cents per thou
sand dollars worth to have their soiled
greenbacks transported to the Treasury
or subtreasuries. To relieve this condi-
ton a bill has been before Congress Ito
establish and maintain the physical clean
illness and serviceable character OF all the
United States paper currency In circuta-
tion.' 1t provides that all national BANKS
and other banks that are national deposi'
tories shall send every bit OF their dirty
currency to the Treasury for the purpose
Of having it reissued in clean bills, the
cost of transportation both ways being
borne by the government. 1t also permits
individuals, corporations and money es-
adjustments of all sorts to enjoy TINS
privilege
How foul our paper money becomes oe-
fore beinz. retired from use is best seen
at the redemption office in the treasury
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peril Of being arrested. The mandate
against white bathing suits for women
was promulgated by the Atlantic City
of Atlantic City cannot. in the nature of
things. be expected to penetrate to the
remOter corners of the United States; and
Atlantic City always is filed in summer
with folks hailing from those same re-
moter corners Of our beloved country.
And some Of them, quite as matter
Of course. fetch white bathing suits along
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A Large Volume.

THE biggest book in Washington is not
I'm the Congressional Library. 1t is
In the reference room Of the geological
survey on street, where its huge bulk
reposes on a stand made especially for
It. 1t is dictionary and consists of
half dozen volumes bound under one
generous cover that must have taken
several calfskins to provide the leather
binding. 1t contains 7,OS5 pages and
weighs as much as high school girl. BY
contrast, the fat Websters Unabridged
that lies alongside this great Jumbo Of
book looks like a pocket edition of the
Rubaiyat.
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PERSONALLY Conducted
! Tour T Trough Uncle
SANS Brand New Plant
Which Cleanses and Re-
issues Dirty Greenbacks-
Washing Machine Which
Circulates Notes in Hot Soap
suds-Restifened With Glue
and Alum-Sterilized in An
tiseptic Bath and Passed
Through Great Wringing
Machines - Ironed u n der
Heavy Rollers and Dried in
Ingenious Mechanism -Ex-
amples of Filthy Lucre-
What Psychological Tests
Reveal.
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APER money laun-
dries in our sub
treasures and in
the redemption Of
fee at Washington
may cut in halt
the present cost OF
printing U n i t e d
States greenbacks.
One Treasury Of
fetal predicts that
the economy eject
ed will reach this
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instructions; weeping, of course, all of
them, without exception, over having
thus been held up and spoken rudely
coast guard bathing suits. Some OF the
wearers Of white bathing suits get into
the sea and begin to splash around there
in before they are tackled by the beach
authorities and warned off the sand or
strand; and those that thus get into the
water usually attract quite enough atten-
ton unto themselves even before the
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with them. They do this. of course with
little or no appreciation of peril in any
sense. But no sooner are the feminine
wearers of the white bathing suits spotted
now in the water by the beach guards
than they are approached and warned
to remove themselves and their white
bathing raiment from the beach instantly
and at once or stand, to employ a COLO
quialism, for q pinch. OF course. they
all leave the beach at once under such
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o you know those
ice cream cones?
II he cornucOpia-
shaped corrugated
cones stuffed with
ice cream. that you
begin eating from
the top dressing OF
ice cream and then
eat cone and ice
cream together as
you progress with
the work OF de-
molitiOn.
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around and around The washer stands
on zinc-topped table beneath which is
q motor belted to g pump which takes
the not suds from the overflow and forces
1t back into the descending Jets.
A stack Of soiled greenbacks is laid
before the operator of the washer, who
rapidly feeds them to the revolving cur
rent OF the tank. He distributes them as
and over and down in rapid procession
doing it's work This lather Is so strong
that 1t bleaches the yellow sides Of our
gold certihcates or yellow backs" as
Wen as the signatures and other letter
ing added to national bank notes by the
ordinary pen. the typewriter OF fac
simile stamps. But all Of our green
backs" which constitute the great bulk
OF the paper currency. withstand the
process because they are printed. num-
bered and sealed entirely In inks made
with metallic base. For these reasons
therefore. the sreenbaeks alone are to be
laundered until gold certificates and bank
notes can be Issued wholly in metallic
ink.
The washing machine takes a thousand
notes at each bath. and they remain in
the tank until the motor driven pump has
circulated the solution for five minutes.
all OF which time the bath Is maintained
at temperature OF 1870 degrees. Then
they are similarly circulated for five
minutes more in plain cold water, which
this they are spread to dry upon wire
trays.
But they are yet to be starched, steril-
lied and ironed, so to speak The money
laundry, however. does not employ starch,
but another stiffener which works better.
This is added by the "sizing machine"
that shown in the picture. where the girl
with the white shirt waist sits with her
back partly turned and with a tall stack
OF money at her left hand. Before her is
a sort Of gridiron OF narrow felt bands
revolving over rollers. This gridiron is
partly open and into 1t she slides the
freshly washed notes. one by one. The
top and bottom rows OF belts come to-
gether upon the moving row Of bills and
carry them down into a tank filled with
this stiffener. which the money laundry
employs in lieu of starch-a solution of
glue. alum and water, heated to 100 de-
grees.
Sterilization is the third process. From
the Sizing bath another combination OF
felt ribbons carries the notes into a tank
filled with a volatile antisept,c, Of the ma
ture Of formaldehyde, devised by Bur-
CESS Smith, chemist of the bureau Of
engraving and printing, who has direct
charge Of the practical end Of the laun-
dering process. Microscopic tests being
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white bathing suit really never was in
tended.
seem odd that the authorities here should
be so everlastingly wrought up and on
their guard over the white bathing suits
for women. considering the fine, free as
air, unrestricted frankneSS or the ne"
Wading custom
The answer perhaps is that the waders
usually are cottagers and therefore
privileged persons, whereas the wea rers
OF the white bathing suits are e,j 51stmon:
down here for a while. you see.
Which. by a natural and non-devious
process, brings me around to the subject
of the immunities and enjoyments OF cot.
tagers In Atlantic City.
We never quite understood what 1t
meant to feel like q superior person I'M
til we became an Atlantic City cottager;
1t Is, we are quite aware, htdeous and
foolish and unbearable for one to be
stuck-up and naughty and tip-tilted In the
region Of the proboscis. and so on; but,
honestly, it can't be helped when one be-
comes a cottager at the seashore.
You see. it's this way:
For ever SO many years we looked upon
seashore cottagers with awe and other
feelings. Sometimes the "other'' feelings
predominated.
Fain are we openly to confess that
we used to hate the summer cottagers
at the seashore for their stuckuppiness,
their air Of conscious superiority. their
impenetrable aloofness, their way OF
looking down upon us. mere wOodtick-like
visitors at the seashore, from stupen-
dous height.
X
We'd pass by the cottages of the cot
tagers and we'd see 'em spread out on
their lovely front porches, with the flap
ping awnings, and the fine lawns dotted
with flowers all around the cottages,
and we'd just naturally dislike those
cottagers. Wed notice how they'd view
US with their calm complaisancy from
their porches as We trudged by; how
they'd stare at US as If we were some
newly discovered armadillo from Guate-
mala; how occasionally they'd nudge
each other furtively as we passed with
our folks. very much as il they were
saying out Of the corners of their faces:
Look at those poor absurd creatures
they brought their food down here In q
shoe box. What do they mean by walk
ing past our cottage anyhow? Why
don't they take the middle of the street?
Aren't they freaks? They're only down
here for about two weeks, probably, and
that being the case, they should be COM
PEELED to walk elsewhere than In front Of
our cottages. because they hurt and Of
fend our eyes, really"
out the inner thoughts Of the seashore
cottagers as they saw us pass by.
Yes, and we were right!
We know now that we were right, be.
cause we are. at present, seashore cot
tagers ourselves.
Really, you have no idea. until you try
1t, what fine little brand Of No. snob-
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But, as suggested. Mr.. Raiph's scheme
will save from three-fifths 10 four flfths
of the filthy lucre now macerated. And
in addition to thus saving perhaps q mill
lion dollars a year to the taxpayers he
will give communities now compelled to
clean and crisp greenbacks free from
germs.
A money laundry IL already in operation
in the bureau OF engraving and printing,
and by courtesy OF Mr.. Ralph have been
permitted to inspect every stage OF the
process.
The soiled money goes first into the
washer" a metallic tank whose end
view. as seen In the accompanying
photograph, Is vase-shaped. That is to
say, it has a round bottom and sides
curving outward at the top. Along one
edge Of the rim a row OF water Jets throw
rapid stream Of hot soapsuds down
along the side Of the tank. whose curved
bottom causes the LIQUID to circulate
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We are getting into the habit Of alb
staining from going on the Boardwalk
with all those queer people that come
down here on excursions"
We sit ON our own porch and stare
stolidly and disapprovingly at the mere
hotel and boarding house folks who
pass by our cottage plant
We have sort of mean, slinky feel
ing that these folks who come down
here for only a little while are in
truders, interlopers; that they don't be-
long here; that, really, they should
them. and all like that; sorry II it
was so hot in the towns they lived in
that they had to come down here to
the seasnore to get a breath Of air;
but why couldn't they have gone to
some other place, instead OF having
come romping down here to the place
where we have a cottage?
We do our sea bathing IN stretch
Of sea away of from that in which
the hoi- polli take their dips, thereby
not having one-eighth of the amount
Of fun that they have; but. really, they
are the excursionizing horde, you see.
while we're cottagers. and how could
we be expected to lave ourselves In
the same patch of salt water that they
choose for theirs?
Astonishing. really, what a difference
at the seashore. We wouldn't have be-
ieved It If we hadn't tried 1t. II It should
ever happen, in the future, that We
should have to spend q season at the sea-
shore as q mere hoteler, instead or
as a cottager, we feel that the expert
ence would come perilously nigh to
breaking our little heart
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dered.
A wringing machine is the next piece
Of apparatus to catch the moving pro-
cession of bills. Still another gridfrOn OF
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bishness this thing OF being seashore
cottager can implant in quite a normal
and otherwise agreeable human mtdrth.
We grieve to acknowledge that we have
quite come to understand just how 1t
feels to be seashore cottager.
We strive and fight against 1t; we
saw to ourselves that We are doing our
selves a grave injustice and wandering
weirdIy from the path OF proletarian
democracy in which we were reared;
but It's no use. We're seashore cot
taRers. We thus have 1t on the great
seething bunch Of non-cottagers. and.
to our chagrin, not to say our stu
pefaction, we find that were precisely
like the seashore cottagers we used to
hate.
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wore four huge sapphire and diamond
rings. likewise ito match"
He would have looked like that re-
nowned potentate Of the east, the
Bhinbhan of Bil1ybedinged, if there
were anything potential or of the
orient-east-isn in his otherwise appear
ance. sBut there isn't. 1t looked odd
to sees fat. jowly man thus bediked
with ;naharajah biqouterie. 1t looked
SO queer in truth. that not a few of
us, coarse and callous Of spirit, laughed
audibly and visibly.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN
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made at the hygienic laboratory Of the
public health and marine hospital service
show that this antiseptic readily kills all
of the germs upon the soiled notes, and
these meteorological tests have been
made with notes with one half nearly
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Well, we all eat the ice cream cones
now: right in front of folks and all the
people.
Only little while ago the ice cream
cones were for children. But the ice
cream cone was too good a thing to be
allowed to remain solely in possession
of the young 'uns.
a few years ago we'd watch a little
boy or girl dredging into one of those
Ice cream cornucopias on a hot day or
hot evening. and we'd go mad with envy.
The convention by which We were
hedged and prisoned prevented us from
going in for the ice cream cones at
that time. Our impulse was to stalk
madly to the first ice cream cone boot h
and purchase the whole stock of 'em
and just stand there and eat and eat
Ice cream cornucopias But the rules
OK the restricted game prevented. and
always We were great for the very
extreme OF SNUG conventionality (Cho-
rus by the company: Ye-es, you wereD
But it's all different now. The lid is
of for ice cream cones. Everybody can
have EN- Not only have 'em, but eat
EN- right on the Boardwalk, with the
world and Altoona and its popula ton
looking on.
The answer is that the cones are ex-
cessiyely good and coolthful and sooth-
ing. A little while ago some brave and
blithe spirits. grown-up girl and woman
persons. began to eye those ice cream
cones that the children were monopo-
LIKING. and they decided that they'd
spread the habit and take the social
consequence
That's why you'll see all of the
srown-up folks. or many of 'em, trudg-
Ing along the Boardwalk NOWADAYS
and nowanights. delving happily into
ice cream cones tightly clutched in
their hands. That's why you'll see
tles OF rolling chairs pulled up before
the Ice cream cone booths. the occu-
pants of the chairs patiently but eager
ly waiting for their cones And we
go right along the great plank parade,
eating Ice cream contained snugiy in
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beach patrols say a single, solitary word
to them.
X <
There would be better way to get
at the root of this matter, and that way
would be to have a general law enacted
forbidding the manufacture Of white
bathing suits for feminine persons. The
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Notes that have been swallowed by ami
mails constitute quite the most remarka-
BILE category OF dirty money which the
Treasury has to handle. Some time ago
c. J. Allen. farmer. came out of a
hotel at Ogden, Iowa, to discover that his
horse had run away and upset his wagon