The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-08-05

larger beer garden.
The newest society fad is to have
guests write their names on the table
cloth and then have the tracings en-
broidered. It'll be a go, prophesies
the Philadelphia Star, until some hon
est man writes his opinion of the grub.
Says the United States government,
in a bulletin justissued by theGeolog
ical Survey, we tax ourselves almost
$1,500,0OO day and sacrifice 1,449
lives each year, rather than use APP
proved methods of preventing fire. We
build hastily and cheaply, are lax in
enforcing building codes and negligent
in providing fire fighting means. The
fire loss in this country is eight times
as much per capita as in any country
in Europe. Buildings reaching nearly
one-half the value of those erected in
any one year are destroyed by fire
within the twelve months.
A statistical diagram has been
made by the Bell Telephone Company,
entitled Telephone Pyramid" which
shows the increase in the use of the
instrument since 1876. In 1882 the
100000 point had nearly been reached
and in 1890 the 100000 mark was pass
ed. The increase, notes the New
York Tribune, was comparatively slow
until 1900, when upward of 100000
telephones had been installed. From
that time on the pyramid has grown
by great bounds and on January
of this year the chart shows 100000
in use. or as the compiler says, "a
telephone to each seventeen of the
total population of the United States
Fashion is the daughter of vanity,
according to Professor Karl Weule,
who in his recently published work on
the negroes of East Africa tells OF
some of the styles among the women
of that part Of the world. He writes:
"The most remarkable of these, in the
eyes of the European, is that which
finds it's expression in the mutiated
lip of the woman. According to the
East African woman's notion, the up
per lip, when allowed to remain as ma
ture formed it, is hideous and the own
err beyond the pale of fashion. When
a girl is six or seven years old her
lip is pierced and the aperture kept
from healing by the insertion Of sticks
and reeds. Gradually, and not without
suffering, the opening is enlarged until
finally it will hold an ornament vary.
ing in size from one to two inches in
diameter. Blocks of wood are the
favorite decorations, and the one
whose face has been mutilated to hold
the largest of these is the greatest
belle"
The effort to avoid the law for the
protection of wild fowl in Massachu-
sets, introduced by bills in the Legis.
lature, has been happily defeated, so
far. There remains further endeavor
whose purpose is to amend or repeal
this law. One of these bills, cites the
Boston Post, removes all protection
from wild fowl. 1t was reported to
the House Of Representatives by the
legislative committee on fisheries and
game and sent back to the committee
by the House, but it may appear again
in a new dress, and however it ap-
pears it should be watched for and de-
feated. The tendency of all these bills
is to extend the open season and give |
more shooting on one or more species. |
Another bad bill permits the sale Of |
wild ducks and geese in the close |
season. All who desire to see the birds |
protected will naturally oppose this |
bill. It is an incentive to the violation