The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-20
Curious CONVERSATIONS

Mile. Edmee Chandon, who has re-
Gently been appointed assistant as
tronomer to the Paris conservatory,
took a degree at the Sorbonne after
passing brilliantly in mathematics and
physics. She Joined the observatory
staff in 1908.
The Swedish girl prays for a rainy
day on which to get married. Then
before she goes to the ceremony at
tired in her wedding clothes she milks
the COW, feeds the calf and steals n
breast feather from the hen. This is
To bring her the necessities and luXur-
les of life.
Professor Hiram Bingham. director
Of the Yale expedition To Peru. reports
anon the archaeological discoveries u
number of Inca or pre-lnca cities. in
Guiding Macchu Pichu. a city prohaol J.
built by the "megalithic race which
preceded the Incas. Tha ruins are
on an almost inaccessible ridge 1000
feet above the Trubamha river. They
are of great beauty and magnifccncn,
and include palaces. baths, temples
and about 160 houses. Carefully cut
blocks of white granite. some of them
twelve feet long. We're used in the con-
strllction OF the walls.
We have already spoken Of the new
telephone ahle which is laid across
the channel. so as to onnect France
with England. this being designed on
the Pupln system. so that speech is
very clear and the various provinces
Of England can now have connection
with Paris. Recent news states that
connection can now be made from
London to Switzerland in a practical
way for the first time. so that con-
Nersations can be held between Lon
don n Geneva by way of Paris and
Lyons and between London and Basel
by the way Of Paris and Belfort.
Great care is taken that the Per
sian girl shall conform to the recog-
nizea standard of beauty. which re-
quires her TO have a cypress waist. a
hrows that meet" SAYS a traveller.
Her eyes, hrows and hair must be
black as night. her lips. cheeks and
gums AS red as blood. her skin and
teeth as white as almonds, and her
hack. limbs and fingers long. If these
conditions arc naturally absent they
are supplied, as far as possible, by art.
Persian women are always painted.
their ayes darkened with khol and
their fingers stained with henna."
London hostesses, following the ira
dition of the land which found its
way n saving. write a letter Ia
the Times. are letting newspapers
know that they will resist to the ut
most n effort 70 introduce the griz-
zlv hear hug and other American
dances into English ball rooms. The
newspapers themselves do not share
the fear that these freaks of the waved
floor will gain a foothold there. but
n OF them saws that though the
craze has not vet invaded England.
the American influence is plainly WISH
bic In many English hall rooms. and
eccentricities in dancing seem to be
gaining favor with a section of the
dancing public"
Their is a distinct tradition Of FIXING
machines at a Very remote date in
China, according to the author of The
Civilization OF China" and rough wood
cuts OF such cars AVE been handed
down for many centuries. There are
even hints of the x-ray, there being
a record of a physician of the fifth
century. r. c.. who was able to sec
into the viscera of his patients, while
another physician. who lived about
1900 years ago. was accustomed to
use an anesthetic and operated upon
the bowels and offered to cure the
headaches of a military commander
Of his day by opening his head. Hyp-
notism has been used for hundreds
Of years. but is forbidden by law. The
ranks of the boxers We're largely re-
cruited from the society of the vege-
tarians. who neither eat meat, smoke
nor drink.