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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
Moving Picture Shows Grip Chicago

n HICAGO.-The moving picture show
- is putting baseball far in the shade
in its bid for popularity. In Chicago
there are four persons who attend
moving picture shows for every one
that attends baseball game. Moving
picture fans" are becoming more and
more nun erous, and their patronage
Is becoming so popular that the pro-
prietors are giving more than 80 per
cent. more pictures for nickel than
they did year ago. The records OF
the moving picture bureau of the po-
lice department in charge of Sergt
Jeremiah O'Connor show that there
are $50 shows in Chicago. Besides
these, all OF the large vaudeville
houses are running moving pictures,
and the craze has reached such pro-
portions that the centrally located the
aters even are presenting pictures be-
tween the acts.
The first m0ving-ptcture shows were
established in 1908. The first neigh
borhood theaters were located in re-
modelled store buildings. The public
took to them quickly and they grew in
number rapidly. All were not success
full, principally because every Tom,
Dick and Harry who had a few dol
lars to invest bought moving picture
machine, rented place and made a
bid for patronage.
Those handled by experienced show
men prospered. A moving-picture in
spection bureau was established, and
after the usual red tape and delay it
got down to working order The Chi
cago bureau has been so well handled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
SYSTEM OF PENSIONS INAUGU.
RATED BY RAILROADS.
Differences Are Few and Adapted to
Varying Methods Under Which the
Lines Are Operated,

The following is a general analysis
of the pension systems of 81 railroads.
These systems are maintained sole
ly by the companies without contribu-
tons from employees. One of these
railroads limits the age for entering
service in order to be eligible to
pension to so years, regardless of rail
road experience. Seven limit this age
of entrance to As for persons expert
enced in railway work, 35 for those
inexperienced, and set no limit where
service requires special qualifications.
Three companies fix So and two As re-
CARELESS of experience, aid no limit
where special qualifications are re-
quired. Two limit this age to As and
one to So under all circumstances.
The remaining five companies have no
stated limit.
The average age of retirement in
these q companies is fixed at about
81 years, and the number of years
service emitting an employee to a
pension varies from 10 to so years.
One company allows a life pension
of 2 per cent. of the average month
ly pay for the ten years next proceed
ing retirement at 65 Another allows
one and one-fourth per cent. Of the
highest average monthly pay up to $50
during any consecutive ten years Of
service, and in addition three-fourths
of one per cent. of any excess of such
average monthly over $50; in excep-
tional cases the amount may be in
creased not to exceed 25 per cent;
not nuder $40 nor over s75 per month.
Fifteen of these companies give one
per cent. for each year of service, of
the average monthly pay for ten years
preceding retirement. In one railroad
this one per cent. is Increased by a
small approximation allowance from
the relief department, a mutual bene-
fit association supported in part by
the company and in part by the en-
ployes. Another bases its pension on
a percentage of the salary received for
the entire term of service.
Two companies pension is daily
allowance of from Is cents to 1925,
according to which class the pension
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10

AI EW YORK.-Why are there so
~ many fat women?" A man rushing
upon his doom asked this question.
He spoke of the increasing prevalence
of large feminine persons, not with
admiration, but with profound dismay
why are there so many fat women p"
he reiterated. Il have watched the
passing throng in several cities and
while one fat man was passing have
counted not fewer than four fat wom-
en-. This ratio has held true when
ever and wherever | have had occa-
sion to take observations.
These women are, for the most
part, between thirty-fve and fifty-tive
years old. They either waddle ponder
ously or propel themselves forward
with not the slightest perceptible
freedom of motion, looking the while
like statues moving on rollers. The
alarming corpulence Of our middle
aged women is getting serious. They
seem to be fattening for a slumber-
Gus old age.
IF one looks about in New York
theaters and restaurants the conclu-
sion that the New York women seen
there are about twenty pounds over
weight looms large and inevitable.
And in those restaurants lies the ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomena. We eat
too much in New York, because the
best food in the country is shipped
here and the best cooks prepare it."
Working women, women OF leisure,
time killers about our fashionable no.
tells, all indicate that the typical New
York beauty begins life as a slender
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
Gotham Fat Women Outnumber Fat Men

maiden of eighteen or twenty, and
broadens into the plump and pleasing
matron Of twenty-five to thirty-five.
After that there is but one ungaIlant
expression to describe her proportions,
the one married man used who said
he was suffering from fatty degenera-
ton of the sweetheart "
But while there are many persons
who win testify to their own ocular
perception of the stoutness of New
York women, there are certain indi-
viduals who know absolutely about the
matter. They are the buyers OF ready
made suits and gowns in large depart
ment stores. One of these buyers, a
woman who draws large salary from
the most conservative house in New
York, said:
New York women are growing
enormous. Today the average Gus
toner in our store weighs 165 pounds.
She buys a SO suit We sell many
more 38 suits than any other size and
the proportions Of these suits are:
Bust 3S, waist q, hips 40. When a
model is expensive and we buy only
one we always take SO size. And
the number of women who buy 38s
is by no means representative of the
number that should wear them, be-
cause one of Woman's little vanities
is to buy a suit a couple of sizes too
small and have the filter let it out.
She can go around telling her friends
she buys SO, although the filter may
have made it over into a SO or even
a 40.
THE reason why American women
do not look we'll in the hobble skirt is
because they are too large for it.
French women have comparatively
small hips and they can afford to have
their gowns pulled III at the feet.
Skirts are narrower than ever this
year, and l am sure | do not know
how New York women are going to
wear them"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
Worlds Cotton SpindJAs

The cotton spindles of the world
number roundly 134,OOO,0OO, of which
about 54,0O0,0OO are in the United
Kingdom, and a large proportion Of
these are in Lancashire and sections
Immediately adjacent. The annual
export Of manufactures Of cotton,
valued at approximately $5OO,O 600
constitute nearly one-fourth of the
entire S2,280,O0O,0OO exports of the
Kingdom In addition to the exports
the mills supply for home consump-
ton cloths to the value of approxi-
mately S100,OO0O0O annually. There
are employed in the spinning and
weaving mills about $4,000 persons
whose wages aggregate about s135
100000 per annum. These mills nuu.
Der nearly 1000, and 741,1O7 looms
are operated by them. In the produc.
ton OF yarn and cloth, their prepara-
ton for and transportation to market
number Of other industries are al.
lied with the cotton mills. Male on
eratives earn from 40 to so shillinqs
week; women are paid Is to 25 sbi1,
Ings per week.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10

at all times that 1t is acknowledged
to- be the best in the United States.
Seventy thousand feet of films are
inspected every week by the bureau
The seven police officers in charge
are responsible for the supervision
and censorship of all the theaters in
the city, their inspections extending to
both sides Of the footlights. Souvenir
postal cards offered for sale in Chi
cago also are under their inspection.
From two to ten sets of pictures
are rejected each week. "Cutouts" are
ordered in perhaps an average of a
dozen sets of films each week. The
police censors order cut every scene
which If enacted within their sight
would be prohibited by law If pre-
scented in reality.
A glance at the bureaus reports
shows that the following scenes have
been "cut out" OF films within the
past month:
Tough concert haa scene, a coochy
dance, the shooting of a priest, the
shooting of a citizen, the poisoning,
choking and stabbing of a man, a bur-
glar at work, holdup, a safe rob-
berry, prize fight, a poisoning, kid
naping, an abduction, hanging and
a fight with the police.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
Red Cross Christmas Seals.

A statement denying the recent re-
ports about the abandonment of the
Red Cross Christmas seal sale has
been issued by the National Associa-
ton for the Study and Prevention Of
tuberculosis. The statement declares
that not only will the sale be held
this year, as in the past three years,
but that it will be conducted on broad
er lines than ever before. The only
order issued by the postoffice depart
ment which bears on the sale of Red
Cross seals was sent out on July /,
and prohibits the use OF the mails to
letters and packages bearing non
postage stamps on the face, and also
to any mail bearing seals which re-
semble postage stamps if used either
on the. face or back. The Red Cross
seal to be used this year has been
submitted to the postoffice depart
ment and approved, and thus may be
used. but only on the back of letters
and packages. The design to be used
this year depicts pretty winter scene
enclosed in heavy red circle. The
corners are white, thus giving the eff
feet when affixed to a letter or
package OF round seal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10

r OPEKA, Kan.-If walking is good
i exercise for the city man on Sun
day, why is it not good for him on any
other day of the week? That is a
question which not less than twenty
hiking clubs are considering in as
many Kansas towns. Golf and auto
MODELLING are threatened by this new
system of exercise. Edward Payson
Weston when he walked through Kan
sas year or more ago started the
idea of hiking clubs among the bust
ness men of the towns and cities. In
forty or fifty towns clubs were formed
to go on walks on Sunday morning
Sunday was chosen because Il was the
only day the business men could de-
vote to exercise. Now they are plan
ming In several towns to make two or
three hikes each week. An early
morning walk and a fried chicken
breakfast five or six miles out in the
country is something to think about.
The business and professional men Of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
MUST HAVE FAIRNESS
DISCIPLINE IMPOSSIBLE WHERE
FAVoRITIsM EXISTS.
Most Serious Mistake Manager Gan
Make Is to Allow Personal Feel
ing to Dominate Him.

Not a few managers are so consti-
tuted that correct business principle"
is by no means second nature to
them. Other characteristics may out
balance that which makes for serene
and just management, in which case
not only the firm suffers but employees
individually.
The manager with a weakness for
sweet faces or a leaning toward the
kind who will barney him, or ten
dency to petty spite and recrimina-
lions is sure to do a thing or two not
quite in, accord with what is generally
known as good business practice. In
stead of submerging his own individ-
uality entirely in that of his business,
he allows it to dominate. It's leading
manifestation is favoritism.
This is a common complaint in
large Offices, sometimes with and
sometimes without foundation.
In one instance, at least, the evil
dence of favoritism demoralized the
whole Office.
The two leading stenographers, who
were both charming and presuming
nieces Of the superintendent, would
not be Injured to the hard and fast
nine hours a day proposition that had
prevailed in that office. The manager
treated them with a lenience and
smiling Indulgence that soon caused
more comment than was good for his
business.
Previously the head stenographer
had always been looked up to as a
model and pacemaker to the newer
and less able employees, and now the
influence of two doll-like creatures
who had things pretty much their
own way and fiounced in and out Of
the Office at odd hours wasn't bone
fetal
The typists began to follow suit as
far as possible, in fact, too far to es-
cape notice. They assumed preroga-
tives altogether out of keeping with
their positions, and the boss had to
put on the curb. But a silent rebel
lion remained in the air just the same.
In the course Of time so much lee.
turing and hectoring was necessary
that it was evident to all concerned
that the management was one mass
Of flaws. The most obvious remedy
was to dismiss the two easy-going
nieces Of the superintendent, but as
this was an impractical procedure
from the standpoint of the boss, he
himself resigned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
SOUND SLEEP
Can Easily Be Secured.

up to years ago." woman writes.
II was in the habit Of using both tea
and coffee regularly.
Il found that my health was begin
ming to fail, strange nervous attacks
weuld come suddenly upon me, making
me trembls so excessively that l could
not do nay work while they lasted; my
sleep left me and passed long nights
in restless discomfort. l was filled
with 4 nervous dread as TO the future.
"A friend suggested that possibly
tea and coffee were to blame. and 1
decided to give them up, and in cast
ing about for a hot table beverage,
which felt was an absolute necessity,
l was led by good fortune to try Post
UNI.
For more than a year I have used
1t three times day and expect, so
much good has it done me, to con-
tinue its use during the rest of my
life.
soon after beginning the use OF
Postum, found. to my surprise, that,
instead of tossing on sleepless bed
through the long, dreary night. l
dropped into s. sound, dreamless sleep
the moment my head touched the pill
low.
Then I suddenly realized that all
my nervousness had left me, and my
appetite. which had fallen of before,
had all at once been restored so that
/ ate my food with keen relish.
"Au the nervous dread has gone. l
walk mile and half each way to
my work every day and enjoy it I
find an interest in everything that
goes on about me that makes life s.
pleasure. All this owe TO leaving OF
tea and coffee and the use Of Postum.
for have taken no medicine" Name
given by Postum Co.. Battle Greek.
Mich.
There's = reason and 1t is ex-
planned in the little book. The Road
to WeMvtile,~ in pkgs.
Ever read the above Ietters A new
ore npscars from time 20 tirse. Tkes
are seaaiae, true, and fun of human
interest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10

Anna Maria Wilhelmina Pickering.
in her Memoirs" edited by her son.
tells a Yorkshire incident which con-
tains a great deal of human nature.
Variety spices life; the plain is monot-
Onous. until its extent entities it to
the name of prairie or desert, and it
gains interest through vastness.
There was an old couple in the vii
lage whom 1 used often to go to see.
One day, when l found them sitting
one on each side of the fire. the old
man said to me:
We'll, t missis and me, we've been
married nigh on so years, and we've
never had one quarrel"
The old woman looked at me, with
twinkle in her eyes, and said:
1T war Verie conscientious, but
varie ol."-Youth's Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
Cranes to Lift Many Tons

cranes, according to the London
Times, were originally a German type,
and the first three erected in the
United Kingdom were designed and
built by German makers. But Brit
ish crane-makers soon evolved a Titan
crane of an improved and more sub
stsntial design as compared with the
German make
II was in 1906 that the first crane
of the improved type was built for
the Clydebank shipyard, and one of
the latest Of the Titans is to be seen
at Fairfield shipbuilding yard, where
a crane has been erected which has
a lifting capacity OF 900 tons at
radius Of IS feet A Titan recently
completed in Davenport dockyard has
a lifting capacity of $50 tons. and the
admiralty are contemplating the con-
struction OF another huge cantileyer
crane at Portsmouth docky@rd. which
viii lift 246 tons a radius of los feet
One Of the latest Developments of
crane-manufacture is he making of
floating cranes propelled by their
own steam These cranes are capable
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
Success Frequently Hinges Upon
the Ability to Stand Out From
Fellow Workers.
ALSO MAKE WORK CONGENlAL
How Advice Given by Doctor to
Unstrung Girl Proved Turning
Point in Her Llfe-NeVer
Look Upon Toll as
Side Issue.

II hate my work." is the expression
which comes from the lips of many
girls.
That is what makes life seem
drudgery. Unless we like the thing
we are doing, it becomes deadly
burden.
Yet how can I like it?" is the in
irksome"
Why is it uncongenial, why is it irk-
some? Can you do anything better?
Are you really worth more money
than you are getting? Are your serV-
ices valuable?
Shall tell you how one girl taught
herself to like her work? 1t was a
dreary enough occupation in all con-
science She had to fill in certain
spaces on printed postcards. Hun
dreds of other clerks were doing the
same thing, and there seemed to be
no opportunity for advance. From
nine in the morning until half-past
four In the afternoon she wrote, In
terminably, with an intermission of
half-hour for lunch.
"At first 1t seemed as If should go
mad" she said. 81 went to my doc
tor and told him the trouble. l told
him that my work was killing me.
He shook his head and said gruffiy;
You are killing yourself 1 demand
ed, hotly, his reason for such state
ment. His response I shall never
forget All life consists in doing the
same work over and over again, but,
thank God, some Of us know that
such work is our salvation. Go back
to your office and MAKE up your mind
that you will do some one thing bet
ter than those who work around you
ana then come back to me and re-
pert
Il went back to my Office, but there
URN the old routine. One morning
[ had an inspiration I had heard
sosne one tell of the penmanship eX-
adtsd of those who do cataloging for
LIBRARIES. | revolved to learn to write
In the fine, exact manner which ap-
PSGAS Ol Cdl u IuCSAGS' uuItSu up
a s9iend in a public library and ques-
tinBed her. For weeks after that I
prScticed and finally zach post caEd
thae went from my hands bore the
stSmp of finished script. You have
nc idea how l enjoyed that pne small
dcSail of interest in my daily toll, and
In the end 1t counted. My perfect
~,
Of those in authority. l think they
indicated my ability to break away
from set routine. My chief recognized
this and a promotion ensued l was
put to work on charts where my ex-
act penmanship was needed"
Our work will mean something to
US only as we resolve to make it
worth while. To look upon it as a
side issue, to make the part of or
day in which we toll the least import,
ant part in our thoughts and plans is
to put up a barrier against success
and happiness.
Every piece of work which is not
as good as you can make it, in which
you have palmed of imperfect
thought, niggardly execution; every
hasty or slovenly or untrue perform
ance should rise up against you in the
court of your own heart and condemn
you for thief. Bailey in
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
HAVING MIND ALWAYS CLEAR
Systemization Is the Master Habit
That Brings Success to Its
Owner.

Working or thinking without sys-
tenn enfeebles the mind, and leaves
the mental faculties in a clogged con-
dition, so that they do not work sharp
ly The mind must be kept clear and
clean for the present problem, so that
1t may seize and grasp with all its
might the thing it is attempting to
accomplish.
There is only one best way to learn
how to act: that way is the way of
system. systematic your thoughts,
your energies, your abilities. Learn
early in life to do this, and it will
prove the master habit that wins sue
cess.
Systemless men are always sur
pr1sed that the heads of great enter
prises can find so much time for So
cial life, for hobbies, for travel They
cannot understand 1t at ALL They do
not realize that man of great organ
izing ability, with a splendid system,
can do more effective business in a
single hour at his office than a sys-
temless man can accomplish in
twelve. 1t is not the number Of hours,
but the effectiveness of the system
that tells.
One of the advantages Of a college
course is that it trains the mind to
work by system. Whether he likes
to or not, the student is forced to
concentrate his mind when the time
comes, no matter what his mood. or
how he feels. Four years of training
in this should put the mind into work
ing order. 1t should tune the intel
lect so that all the things will be in
harmony. A good college education
should train the mind to think con-
cisely, deeply, effectively as WE'LL
Orison SWEET Marden in Success Mag
azine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
Seemingly There Is Practically No
Limit to What the Engineers
May Accomplish.

1t is not so many years ago that
the making of a steam crane capable
of lifting twenty or thirty tons was
regarded as wonderful piece OF
mechanism and q great event in the
enEineering world. Compared, how
ever. with some of the electric hoists
now in Use in docks and ship-building
yards. tie old twenty-ton steam crane
seems a trifing invention. Today
cranes are being made with lifting
capacities ranging from 100 to $40
tons. and it is interesting to note that
those Of British make are in greatest
demand
Some time ago a Carlisle firm Of
crane-makers sent out to Japan
crane capable of dealing with a load
of 200 tons at a s5-foot radius. asd
many other orders are being executed
for other countries. These gigantic
cranes are known as the Titan or
Aanms>hsad cantilever cranes. These
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
Western Cities Are to Have Pennies

e ALT LAKE CITY, Utah.-After
, years Of turning up noses at cheap
people Of the east who would need
such a small coin as a penny in do
ing their daily business, there has
been developed real call in the west
for these same coins. 1t is largely
due to the feeling of the housewives
that much money could be saved in
their buying at the shops and in other
ways if they had the small pieces of
money. A movement has been put
under way for the banks to import
the coins, and some of the shops are
already advertising wares for sums
that change into pennies.
When an inquiry was recently made
into this subject by persons interested
it was found that less than 10000
pennies were in Salt Lake City. Many
of them were held by the banks, which
said they had difficulty in disposing Of
them As in other cities In the west,
the nickel had been the small coin,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10

and the easy spenders had treated
even that somewhat contemptuously
The newspapers sell for five cents a
copy. Children have been brought up
to the idea of asking for a nickel for
candy and spending it.
Now the cost Of living is coming
home even to the free-spending west,
and housewives have found that it is
not only well to look after the nickels,
but the pennies, too. 1t is pointed out
that under the present system if a
purchase comes to an odd amount the
total is put up to make the even nickel
for the shopkeeper.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
Failed TO Scare Him.

A plan was formed to scare a Ger,
tain Tim Casey, living in a village
near Belfast. on his returning from
market by night past the churchyard.
AS he went by, the usual turnip, white
sheet. and lanthorn of the convention
al ghost were submitted to his gaze,
with the customary weird bowls. Tim,
however, simply looked fixedly at the
apparitioa for a moment and re-
marked: 'fArrah, now, and is it gen
eraI resurrection. or are We just taking
a walk by yerself?"