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PIGSKIN IS NOT USED MAKING THE MODERN FOOT BALLS

special treatment for foot ball pur-
poses and are as finely finished as shoe
leather After careful inspection to
see whether or not there are any i'm
PROJECTIONS (for the slightest flaw
foot ball purposes) the hides are sent
to the cutting room.
Skill is required to cut the sections so
that there will be no waste in the leath-
er. This cutting is done by machinery.
The cutter divides the hide into as many
oval sections as the piece will stand and
sends these pieces into room where
girls sit al long tables ready for the next
stage of the work.
in the shape required for the finished
ball. is lined by the girls. The lining is
cotton twill, and it has to be pasted on
the leather sections very carefully and
neatly This is the only part of the work
intrusted to girls. and 1t is work for
which the girls are better suited than the
men. They place the leather to be lined
smooth side down, paste one of the pieces
and press this down the leather.
smoothing it down until it adheres per-
fectly without any ragged edge. 1t Is
done slowly and carefully. the girls being
told to take their time and not give the
edges of the lining a chance to dry out
and work up. 1t may take a girl an hour
and half to paste the Innings on a dozen
covers.
The next process is to carry the lined
leather to a machine where the Innings are
stitched together. From this machine they
go to another stitching man who seWs
the covers together. From this stitch
ing machine the covers come wrong side
out, and the next thing to do is to turn
them right side out. The cheaper covers
are reversed by machine that draws
them one draws the reversed foot OF
a stocking. The better grade of covers
are drawn right side out by hand. The
feat is difficult one. requiring great
strength. Workmen at the foot ball fac
tory do nothing all day but turn the
covers from the wrong to the right side.
and these men from continually doing the
work become immensely strong in the
hands and can work faster because Of tho
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RED TO DEATH IN PARIS WALL OF AMERICANS WHO LIVE THERE

an hour OF greeting and forgetfulness.
Il meet my friends at Williams, said
the member of the Travellers, the man
who in Chicago and New York has cher
ished clubs. ''Henry's is bigger. Every
time ] look in there l say to myself
Where do all these tough American GUS
toners come FROM and what are they
doing in Paris?' 1 think they must be
here on account of racing being stopped
in America. perhaps also pugilism. OF
course, they're in and out of Williams s..
too; but / pay no attention. l meet such
men as 1 have been speaking of. We col
1ect there for an hour in the morning to
talk American stocks and obtain a little
Whit of America before going back to
lunch and the feminine life that runs
Paris. That big brokers' office in the T1f-
fanny building has filled a long-felt want
We stroll round there together
1t is the real thing in American bro
kers' offices, and even more so. 1t is a
club for the bored rich men of Our cities,
whose familiar atmosphere and language
soothe them Infinitely. Only American
stocks dealt in that upper floor
above Tiffany's in Paris
There is not enough fuctuation in
European stocks to suit Americans" said
the New Yorker And no real Ameri-
u
There is not d single solitary club in
Paris such we are accustomed to in
America. Ellis Wainwright. who has just
gone back to st. Louis. bored himself to
death here. ! could interest myself in an
abandoned gold mine / know of In Dau-
phiny, but do you think that my family
would stand for it? They won't even go
automobile touringt'
What is the routine of happy, lucky
Americans like yourself who have moth
q n II
Paris?'' | asked.
Every morning when we get awake"
he said. I'VE ask ourselves, Now, what
shall | do today?
"YeS?" / said. to make him continue.
That's ALL he said. Some of us are
driven to baccarat in desperation Some
of us motor out to Enghien, which has
become veritable little Monte Carlo,
races and behave nice to the friends Of
wives and daughters. At night we
go to the theater. bah!
Don't you like Paris theaters?'
Paris theaters don't appeal to Ameri-
can men. If the women say they like
them, 1T is partly bluff. Of course, they
are happy to be in a social center and
enjoy the dresses of the actresses But
double entendre. argot, Paris jargon and
illusions scattered through the
dialogue that we cannot follow the dis-
logue. The American is clean-minded
and he sees nothing but the bare argu-
ment of the play and is disgusted He
misses the delicate humor and fancy of
it, which Parisians enjoy. | catch a lit
tie here and there, when it is conversa-
ton, but I take and read the same
piece with pleasure. ! can understand
anything, if it is not thrown at me TOO
fast. Take the 'Ane de Buridon.' l saw
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not yet ready for delivery. It is stamped
on hot press and worked until Its
surface is smooth and it is ready for the
foot ball field. Finally, the finished foot
ball goes to the inspection room to be
examined for defects, and if passed it Is
ready for the use of the athletic teams
that will do their best to nullify the
careful work of the factory men, to the
great dissatisfaction of all parties con-
cerned, for the more foot balls the kickers
demolish the better for trade.
While the game itself has changed and
Is changing every season, the ball re-
ball of early years. A playground ball
has been invented with the seams sewed
outside instead of inside to stand the
rough usage given it on asphalted
useful in preventing wear when the ball
is kicked and thrown around. but with
this exception the foot ball has been i'm
proved or changed very little since the
Rugby ball was first made Forty-two
thousand oval foot balls were made at
June to November. Some of the very
highest priced balls are made from hide
imported from England. but the domes-
tic animal furnishes a sufficiently fine
grade of hide for the majority of the
foot balls made.
The game is an ancient one. 1t is re-
corded that the men of Derby, England.
played foot ball as part Of a carnival of
rejoicing over the Qe1eat or the roman
legfons in the third century. In the Isle
Of Purbeck the free quarrymen have
from time immemorial perpetuated their
claim to a piece of land by kicking a
foot bali across it, in accordance with
the quaint old tenure of the original
grant.
During the reign of Edward III of Eng
hand. in the year 1349, the game was
prohibited by public edict because it d.
verted time and attention from the more
martial and nafri0fiC exercises Of those
feudal times, such as archery and wres-
Ting. This, as far as Is known, was the
first mention of the game by the popular
name 1t bears now.
It may not be generally known that
the game has patron saint. In 1920 a
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artillery to speak of. The machine guns
can do terrible execution upon it. There
has been no evidence of an inclination
to disturb foreigners the part of
either faction to the present trouble. There
is. however, always the possibility that
the faction getting defeated will fall upon
the foreigners and slay and pillage in
order to bring about intervention. They
would then disclaim any responsibility
for the outrages and would expect to
ceive better treatment at the hands of
intervening nations than from their con-
quering foes. This is really the great
danger that faces the legations. If
either faction should find it advisable to
resort to this extreme, the army and the
artillery of that party would be directed
against the legations and then there
would be no hope in resistance.
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lieutenants. In time of, need, of course,
the guards of all the nations work in
unison. When the rabble surges back
and forth they are disposed as to hold
it off to best advantage. The American
legation is al the very head of the res
ervatien, and its location places it In the
greatest danger in case of attack. On
top Of the front gate is built lofty
pagoda. This commands the legation. and
from it it would be possible to demolish
the buildings with artillery. The Ameri-
cans, therefore, plan to seize this gate
whenever serious trouble starts. There
they would install their own artillery and
might train it on any part of either the
Chinese or Manchu city.
The foreigners feel that they will be
able to withstand any onslaught of a
mob A mob is disorganized and has no
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THE "FRONT GATE" OF PEkING.
strategical point in case of attack.

guarding ii since revolution broke out in
the land of the dragon.
For the Chinese are a people peculiarly
given over TO mob rule and mob violence
What Is more, they are a people among
whom there seem to be no strong domi-
nant figures. no leaders to direct their
destinies and convert them from a mob to
an organized army. Their armies are lit
tie more than mobs. The best of them
cease at times to be armies and be-
come mobS. The outsider never
knows when the transformation is to
take place and when he is to be forced to
cope with the swar,ning hordes of Mon
goiians dominated by. nothing but the
mob spirit.
Picking, the capital of the Chinese en-
pire, has been the point of vantage of
which both the revolutionary forces and
the government have sought to gain and
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do bump. The tearooms Of the Carlton.
RITZ. Colomb!n'S or RumpelEneyer's con
tnue this feminine razZle and brilliancy
At the races they mingle with world Of
magnificent drcssin and splendid eIui-
pa-es. al palpitating. busy and excited.
vet refined. proud and with beautiful
manners I myself found Biarritz "A dis
tinct relief"
BiarritZ which the railway enters for
the first time this year hidden little
bijou pleasure city of the rich in the
opera comique scenery of the sweet
Basque land beside the warm Atlantic. IL
at once the most aTistocratic and most
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welcoming of beaches The riffran has
not yet learned its way there.
The roads, scenery and excursions are
delightful, enthuSed the one-time New
York business man My family werc
willing to go automobiling down there, be-
cause the elegantes were dong it, We
would motor Off To St.-Jean- pied-de,-P Port
and run UP against three or four ariSto-
cratic parties taking lunch or tea at the
old-fashioned inn there. Why, our women
delight in lunching in the same room even
with actresses and dem- monddInes-if
thev are high and famous enough
Just to watch them
~Just to watch them. At Biarritz Il is
one Of their pleasures watching how
those women dress, and who was with
who, and what styles they are adopting,
and whether 1t Will take. The Spanish
habtues of Biarritz are also a delight
to the eye. They are SO eXtravagant Ill
dress and manner, so arrogant and sure
that they are running the whole snow
They say tat for Madrid family not
to have spent at least september at Bar
ritz is a social disgrace. During nine
months OF the year in their moidering
chateuX, they i've on beans and oil,
saving up for one month AT Madrid ana
two months at Biarrltz, where they lit
orally throw gold into the street,
DO your families get acquainted with
those noble 81 anlsh families | asked.
All, yes. one young uhialSO rented
the bull ring at PasaJes. hired a Sl,So
crudrilla from Seville and three Sl,9)
bulls from CordoVa, and had invitations
delivered to the families In the best
hotels, along with his friends and the
villa owners. We got right into it So.
cially."
Your family were wiIling?" / sug-
gested timidly.
Yes he said, slowly. solemnly: 1.-The
women, | think, would wade through
blood to obtain social honors.'
The good man sighed lugubriously.
We'll. / must be going, he said,
there's a dinner on tonight at our place,
theater party, restaurant supper, all that.
I'm sure TO catch cold in my dress suit"
He rose and locked down thoughtfulIy.
Never was afraid of catching cold
at home. l suspect I'm getting neuras-
thenia.
Are you going 10 the Thanksgiving
dnner?' some one asked him. (The
dinner has been an event
in the American colony for years. 1t
is a subscription affair. grown out or
a University Dinner Club All respec-
table Americans are elgible.D
Don't know. Haven't decided" said the
rich American, very wistfully, and hur-
ried off almost embarrassed.
His wife won't let him, the Thanks
giving dinner is too mixed and common
whispered some one. Tie won't show
up
But he did show up-and with him,
many of the hundreds like him. bored in
Paris. STERLING IEILIG.
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tastes and situation are drawn together"
Amel1cans?"
Yes, and the. Europeans who go with
them. Each forms a little nucleus They
merge. they enlarge
Would Rodman Wanamaker's daugh-
ter. at Biarritz. take up newly arrived
Americans in her train" [ asked
Certainly, If she liked them and met
them. 1t has happened. My own fam
fly
The facts came out slowly. These Ameri-
can men are chivalrous. They are VIC
TINS of their families. At this moslent
one who had VIGOROUSLY made his own
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ACHAsLNG the pigskin?" quoted
the reader Of the foot ball
column. in a disguised tone.
why don't the newspapers learn
something about a foot ball? 1t isn't
made OF pigskin at all 1t is the little
animal that later becomes veal that
furnishes the leather for the foot ball
teams
Foot balls are made of oalfskin and
not of pigskin. as is popularity and
enormously believed. The skin Of the
pig has no place in a foot ball fac
tory from the start to the finish of
the process of making balls The
cheaper balls-those that are used by
the youngsters on the lots and can be
bought in the corner store for a small
price-are made from the skin of the
sheep. All the better varieties are
made of calfskin. The bladders are
made of the best Para rubber.
In explanation of the origin of the
name '.pigskin" as applied to the foot
ball sage at the factory recited the
fact that in the old days when the
game had just been invented the
bladder of the pig was used to give
the ball its buoyancy, and the kick
ers of those old days really did apply
a ball inflated with that kind of q
skin Nowadays even the bladder has
been discarded and rubber substituted,
so that the pig has nothing to do with
the great game.
When first turned out the foot balls
are of light leather. but the mud of
many hard-fought fields soon changes
the hue so that few people have seen
a light -colored ball. The regulation
foot ball weighs from thirteen and a
quarter to fourteen ounces. The SOC
GER" ball weighs from thirteen to If
teen ounces
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T. P Thorne has taken a house there. to
be near his horses. w. K. Vanderbilt has
an estate nearby, at Piossy. ]. F. Wide
ner spends all his time in the countryside
near Paris. Ogden Bishop has house
at Maisons-Lafitte.
''They get the occupation of a business
from it, sighed the disappointed one.
Those men did not take up racing be-
cause they were bored in Paris; no, they
came to Paris to continue their racing.
MY wife wants me to initiate them 1t
would be ridiculous. Well, au revoir. l
must go and see If l can find anybody"
We were not anybody.
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America

oh, let's go back to Paris.' and then:
oh, let us stay this winter. They think
that they come for society. but they stay
for excitement"
I asked him how.
He suuirmed and hesitated
What our women really enjoy in Paris
is the brilliant public life he said. The
great dreSsmaking establishments are like
women's clubs of fashion and beauty.
They don't know the actresses and coun-
tesses they bump up against, but they
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it and did not appreciate it at all. Then
1 read it, and found it one of the most
delightful things / had ever come across"
The poor man has taken to reading.
And there are others.
Men who never read before are read
ing history and biography in Paris They
have time now he said. "Ah, the good
old days when We We're worked to daathi''
He blew his nose in agitation. l think
he wiped furtive teardrop.
when a man has accumulated enough
money he Graves for something more than
he has had he went on. He has heard
that European life is wider. larger. cult
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1t is but three hours run from the sea
10 Picking if trains are to be had and
the tracks are intact 1t is five days
under forced march or ten DAYS in
moving a large body OF men. Should
serious trouble arise there might and
there might not be warships in nearby
waters. Japan could land a large fight
ing force in China quickest, and il ia
understood that Japan is prepared 50 do
this on short notice. The United States
from the Philippines. and all the details
are worked out for moving such a force
at moments notice. In the meantime
the stout-hearted marines are sitting
tight and are prepared To give an
count of themselves if the worst comes
TO the worst
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places. where they can have Immediately
and see being worn-the newest things
in gowns and hats and wraps and GIN
cracks, and comment on how they look,
and whether they will take, and how they
ought to be worn. The life fascinates
our women"
And when they go back to America ?"
/ said.
When our women go back to Amer
lea it seems humdrum to them in this
respect. They get dissatisfied. and say:
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l do not know how much Blank has, but
his wife was very rich. AS far as Dash is
concerned, it was the wife; and Lines
worked into his father-in-law's interests
as his right-hand man. All fine. big.
healthy fellows; but the wife would not
stay in America, so they could not buckle
down to anything
What do they do in Paris?"
II don't know. l know that they are
bored Some are bored on society. Some
are bored on baccarat Some are bored
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Everybody knows their finding places.
Men who never entered bar at home
drop into Williams Henry's or the Chat
ham. They do not drink the connections
they order. Pilgrims of wealth. society
and loneliness stroll moodily from their
fair Paris homes, along the fiowery ave-
nues cOnverg1ng to the tourist center for
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boy named Hugh, who was one of the
champions of the day, had the misfor-
of a house. The enraged occupant at
tackled the youth and killed him. The
slayer got his deserts and the victim
was immortalized in verse and story as
''St. Hugh
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Guarding Legations China From Possible Attacks by Fened Mobs

COLDIERS Representing Many Countries Guard Foreigners
0-Peking, the Walled CapalAl Foreign Legations Are
Located ThereReguar Guard of the Legations Numbers
Minimum of One Thousand Picked Fighters of the World
How the Foreigners Repulse Attacks-British Legation
Guarded by Sixinch Guns-Unce Sans Men Use Threeinch
Guns as as the Smaller Arms-Fightine Chinese Mob
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CHIVALRY of Successful
~ American Business Men
From All Our Cities-Disap-
pointed in the Gay French
Capital-Exodus of American
Wealth-A Masculine Fail
ure-"No Cause for Thanks
giving in European Idleness. "
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on horses. Take fuIl-booded, capable
American man. and these things do not
satisfy him. Those who are really racing
men enjoy themselves; but take notice,
they are not much in Paris!
He mentioned the Americans at Mai
sons-Lafitte, where Frank Jay Gould is
building a large house close to the track.
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, cause for Thanks
giving here, COM
planned the very
rich American. II
walk down the
Champs Elysees for
exercise. Down the
Champs Elysees,
up the Rue Roy
ale, and into the
boulevard TO play
billiards in t h l S
cafe. / need the
exercise.
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eyes
There are--or were-four families here
from Cleveland" he said. In each case
the wife had the most money, and really
more or less controls the sitlation-very
properly. Of course. So-and-So was very
rich personally; but his wife was richer.
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waited. beautiful and he wants To get
into it. OF cohrse. we are enraptured
with the automobile touring, the perfect
roads, the old chateaux and ruined cas-
ties: but our wives and families won't
stand for ii.
Then find occupation in Paris ] sug-
gested.
Yes, they want TO be in the center,
where they can get their finery. That is
what women live for. They want to stay
in Paris and the fashionable watering
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occupied so delicate and so dangerous
position in the last decade as has that
little band of men which is guarding the
American legation in China and has ben
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BODY of 80 Amer
lean marines ha 5
been sitting on the
equivalent of a
thousand tons of
dynamite in the
city of Picking,
China. for the past
month. Probably
no single detach-
ment of the fight
ing force of the
United States has
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In the room where the process Of
making the foot ball begins the skins
are received and carefully inspected.
They are sent to the factory only after
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS. November
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-29
ITO be Continued.)

Princes at School.-Dr. Marks tells
some amusing stories of the early
days of the school I'm Burma or which
he was for so many years the head
shortly after the school was opened
King Thebaw said. Twill you teach
some of my sons?" "Certainly,' SAID
DR.. Marks. What ages do you ike
them at?" DR.. Marks replied, FROM
twelve to fourteen" The king SAID
"Rring all my sons between Twelve
and fourteen to me-" Nine princes
came i'm. Four came to school the
next day, each riding on an elephant
and with two gold umbrellas. Each
also was escorted by forty soldiers.
Afterward the whole nine came, so
there were nine princes, nine ele-
plants. eighteen gold umbrellas ana
$50 soldiers. The elephants stayed
outside, but when the princes came
into the schoolroOm all the other boys
threw themselves fiat down on thelr
faces on the ground. 1t was forbid
den for any one to stand or sit I'm the
presence of princes. DR.. Marks found
this state of things very inconvenient,
and the royal etiquette at school was
at his request considerably abated.-
London Globe.