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The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
Al April Party.

My name Is April: and L
Often laugh. as often cry;
And | cannot tell what makes me;
Only ass the fit o'ertakes me!
/ must dimple, smile and frown,
Laughing though the tears roll down.
But tbs nature. sir, not art;
And I'm happy at my heart.
We are all happy lat our hearts
these days, and none more so than
the little mother who planned this
party for the children OF the neigh
borhood, her own boy and girl being
the host and hostess. The usual lit
vitations were sent out, save that in
one corner were the words "Soap-Bub-
bic Party" The decorations were UNI
brellas suspended from the ceiling.
Under each was a small table holding
two pipes ornamented with bows Of
rainbow colors, a bowl and a bottle
containing soap-bubble water. This
mixture was soapsuds with the addi-
ton of n tablespoon of glycerin in
every pint of water, which gives luster
and stability TO the fairy bubbles.
Prizes were offered for the largest
bubble, for the one remaining longest
in the air, for the one with the most
vivid coloring and for the one soaring
the highest.
A pretty game was arranged by
stretching a board ribbon across the
room like a tennis net, providing fans
TO blow the bubbles. The contest was
to see which side could blow the great
est number of bubbles and get them
over the ribbon. Two persons played
at a time, or four, as in tennis.
The table was gay with a circle OF
candles In the seven prismatic colors
around large crescentshaped cake.
The flowers were hyacinths in delicate
pink, lavender, white, yellow and pur-
pie. One stalk in tiny pot at the
plates made a beautiful table.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
Two Aprll Showers.

Did you ever hear OF Trouble
Shower" Well, il not, try one on
the next bride-elect you wish to honor.
On the Invitation notes pin down one
corner with a needle and the other OPP
posite with a pin, lettering the follow
ing nursery rhyme prophecy across the
top;
Needles and pins! When a maid
marries her trouble begins!"
The idea TO be carried out is this:
The hostess provides a dainty work
basket or bag, as she may prefer,
and the guests supply the contents to
it 1t out completely. II the favorite
color OF the bride is known It is
a pretty compliment to carry out that
color scheme throughout. The shower
l heard about had all in yellow. The
basket was a gilded one, lined with
yellow satin, and the needlebook Of
yellow satin, the scissor case OF pig
skin. There was a tape measure,
thimble, emery, ribbon threaders, pin
cushion, spools of thread and silk, but
tons, safety pins, common pins and
cases OF needles. To make more fun,
these articles were done up separately
in white paper tied with yellow ribbon
and hidden all over the big living
room.
The little bride-to-be had time
gathering all her possessions into her
basket The hostess knew just how
many parcels there we're and they all
had to be found before "eats" could
be served.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03

81 think I suffered every pain wo-
man could before L began taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. and
I think It saved this baby's life, as I
lost my first one.
"My health has been very good ever
since, and praise your medicine to all
my friends - Mrs. VERNA WILKES,
R. F. D. No. 1, Plattsburg, Miss.
The darkest days Of husband and wife
are when they come to look forward to
q childless and lonely old age.
Many a wife has found herself inca
pable of motherhood owing to some
arrangement of the feminine system,
often durable by the proper remedies.
In many homes once childless there
are now children because of the fact
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound makes women normal.
II you want special advice write to
Lydia 4. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnf1-
dential Lynn, Mess. Your letter viii
be opened, read and answered by q
woman and held In strict confidence.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
HUBBY SOLVES OLD PROBLEM
Puts Frogs in Mother-in-Law's Bed
Now Wife Sues for Divorce From
Cruel Man.

New York.-Francis Colgate Dale
has found the solution OF the mother
in-law problem. That he has lost his
wife in the process doesn't dim his
enthusiasm.
At the trial Of the divorce proceed.
-ngs, commenced by Mrs. Dale, her
mother Mrs. Frank n. Patterson. tes-
tilted that when she visited her
daughter, the husband put big, wet.
wiggly bull frogs in her bed.
On another occasion she said Dale
put tin cans under her bed and at
tached a string to them which ran
out OF the window He pulled the
string through the night. Dale was az
amateur violinist, the mother-in-law
testified, and when dinner was an
nounced he would play for at least a
half hour and order that the meal be
not served until he was ready. re
also made it rule to feed the ca
first before his motherin-law could
have her eats" she said.
It was also testified that when the
mother-in-law visited him, Dale invit
cd an amateur orchestra TO his house
10 practice, which often kept up until
the early hours of the morning.
Mrs. Dale said that after one of her
mothers visits, Dale presented for her
signature a paper declaring that her
mother had an ungovernable temper
and was the cause OF any misunder
standing between them; that 1t was
impossible to get along with her; and
that she should never enter their home
again" Mrs. Dale refused to align It.
Mrs. Patterson persuaded her
daughter that che should not live with
"a man who has such mean ways, and
the divorce snft resulted.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03

most dilapidated, and il speaks won
ders for the tremendous hold it must
have taken on her not to have daunt.
ed her when she saw it's tumble-down
condition. 1t had not been inhabited
for years, and the whole OF the tnte'
rior was literally in ruins. But the
ancient outside walls were good, anG
the views were so exquisite all around
that Mrs Vincent fell in love with ii
and said she must have it. Fortu
nately, too, she hadn't to consider
cost at all; the whole thing from
start to finish, besides what her faith
er paid for It, is said to have cost her
s2,500,000 to make it habitable, and
now Muckross Abbey, still as pictur
esque as ever. is one OF the most
luxuriously and comfortably appoint
I'd houses in the British Isles.
There was another thing, too
which attracted her strongly in Muck
ross, and that was the opportunitie:
she saw 1t would give her of indulg
ing her love OF all outdoor pursuits
She is passionately attached to al
animals, particularly dogs and horses
and very soon after her marriage she
made up her mind to restore the al
most extinct breed of Irish wolf
hounds. She built kennels for be
tween so and 60 dogs and had the
whole Of Ireland secured for gooc
specimens of the breed.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
No LITTLE Girl for Him.

The six-year-old son OF a well-known
Indianapolis family attends a dancing
school. He is a chubby little fellow
who has not begun to stretch out yet,
and he keenly feels his shortage"
He demands that he be recognized as
a little 'grownup." Several days ago
the teacher planned to instruct her
pupils In dancing "the Butterfly" A
five-yearold girl who is small for her
age. and just a triie stouter than our
hero. but an adept at dancing. was
assigned as his partner. He gazed at
her in silence. Then he took hold
OF her hand and. with his mouth set
firmly, walked straight over the the
teacher.
Don't you think you'd better give
me bigger giri?" he asked.--Indian'
apolls News.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
MADAM { MERRI.
Novelty Spoon.

Convenient for the feminine trav-
eler who uses only a special brand OF
tea is a spoon with a cover that is
perforated similarly to tea ball. This
spoon works on the principle OF pair
Of scissors, being governed by a
spring near the root OF the handle.
which sends the base OF the contriv-
ance In one direction and the lid in
the other BY soaking this spoon--of
solid or plated silver--in the cupful of
hot water which railway porters are
always able to provide, the traveller
who is bit ''fussy" about the quality
OF the cheering beverage may have
1t precisely to her liking.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
noted IRISH ABBEY
Famous Estate in Ireland Is Re-
habilitated by U. S. Woman.
San Francisco Man Bought Home
From Lord ArdlIaun for His
Daughter-Plaee Rebuilt at
Cost Of $2,5oo,ooo.

London.--Muckross Abbey, the pic
turesque home OF Colonel and Mrs
Vincent, has become the headquarters
of particularly lively hunting season
in Ireland. You perhaps will remem'
Der that Mrs. Vincent's father, w. b.
Brown of San Francisco. bought this
famous place from Lord Ardilaun. and
gave it to his daughter as n wedding
present. OF all the picturesque ruins
that rich American wives have had
10 work on, this was probably the
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
Quilted Silk Muffers.

A pretty notion for feminine wear is
a quilted silk muller cut somewhat on
tho lines OF the man muller. These
are made of pink or pale blue. bro
cade lined with quilted white silk, or
they may be ordered to match the
opera cloak. They are perfectly fat,
and are bordered their entire length
with marabou matching the brocade.
Ready made they cost $3.50 each.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
A Five and Ten Cent Shower.

This Jolly affair was given for girl
who gratefully and firmly declined all
parties known as Showers as she
said she considered them too great a
tax upon long-suffering friends. In
view OF this, one Of the girls who was
a leader in the crowd 'phoned about
thirty OF the crowd both boys and
girls. and told them her scheme OF
limiting the gifts TO the Five and
Ten," and all were instructed TO send
their offerings to her (the hostess
house, on the day before the party.
Then on the day set for the event, af-
ter all had arrived, the parcels, each
securely wrapped, were brought in
two great clothes baskets. Then all
were seated in a circle, a step ladder
and table brought in, and the pack
ages were auctioned off to the highest
bidder by the funny man in the bunch.
When all the articles were bid in they
were bestowed upon the bride-and
bridegroom-elect and the rest Of the
evening was spent in watching them
open their goods"
MADAME MERRl
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
sIlnhtlx Misunderstood.

Il understand that the young man
in the house next to you is a finished
cornetist?" Gee! Is he? / was just
screwing up my courage to finish him
myself! Who did it?'-Houston Post
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
THE DEAREST
baby
Mrs. Wilkes Fondest Hopes
Realized-Health, Hap
piness and Baby.

Plattsburg, Miss" Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has proved
very beneficial to me, for now am well
and have a sweet, Eealthy baby, and
our home is happy.
az was an invalid from nervous pros
tration, indigestion and female troubles.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
CurtalIments.

Many Of the young readers OF our
department love puzzles and contests
OF all kinds. l wonder how they
would Ike TO wrack their brains over
the following which am assured lis
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
RESINOL STOPS
SKIN TROUBLES

II you have eczema, ringworm, or
other itching, burning. unsightly skin
or scalp eruption, try Resinol Oint-
ment and Resinol Soap, and see how
quickly the itching stops and the
trouble disappears, even in severe and
stubborn cases. Pimples. blackheads
and red. sore, blotchy faces and hands
speedily yield TO Resinol.
Resinol Ointment and Reslnol Soap
heal skin humors, sores. boils, burns.
scalds, oold-sores, chaflngs and piles.
Prescribed by physicians for eighteen
years. All druggists sell Resinol Soap
(25c) and Resinol Ointment (bOc and
81. Sent by parcel post on receipt OF
price. For sample OF each write 10
Dept OK. Rcsinol Chem. Co., Baitt
more, I'D
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03

EAST DUFFALO-Recci of cat
tie 145 cars; market 10G 15c lower;
best 1850 TO 1,5OO-Tb steers. $3.50
8.95; good 10 prime 1900 to 1,300-fb
steers, sS.50GS.60; good to prime L..
100 to 1,20O-ib steers. sS9S.25; coarse.
plainish LOO to 1,200-rb steers S7.25@
7.75: medium butchers steers, 1000 TO
100 Tbs. S725@775; butchers steers.
500 to 1000 lbs, $7@75O; light butch
er steers, $6.60@7.25; best fat COWS,
S5g6; butcher cows. $4.25@4.75; cut
ters, $464.65; trimmers, S3.5003.75;
best fat heifers, S7.7598.25; medium
butcher heifers. $6.50Q7; light butcher
heifers, $6G6.25; stock heifers. $3.50
G; best feeding steers, S7@7.25; light
common stockers. $606.25; prime ex-
port bulls, $707.25; best butcher bulls,
S6.5007; bologna bulls, S5.5596.25;
stock bulls, $5@5.5O; best mixers and
springers, S65@sO; common to fair
kind do. $40G50 Hogs: Receipts. 80
cars; market opened 81 per hundred
lower, closed steady; heavy, $3.50
$50; workers., $9S5G1c; pigs, $4,000
10; rough, $S.50@S.75. Sheep and
lambs; Receipts, 20 cars; market low
er; top lambs, $S.90d9; culls TO fair
s7G8.75; yearlings. $S@S.25: wethers
$7G725; ewes, $Gd6.75, Calves. $54
1850.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
THE MARKETS.
Live Stock, Grain and General Farm
Produce.

Detroit-.Cattle-R S4S; mar
ket steady; best steers, sS0S.15;
steers and helfers, 1000 to 10000 fbs.
S7.509s; steers and heifers. 800 TO
1000 lbs, S767.50; steers and helfers
that are fat, 500 to 700 lbs, S6G7;
choice fat heifers that are fat 500 to
700 lbs, $697; choice fat cows, 500
6.75; good fat COWS, $5@6; common
cows. S4.50q4.75; Gamers, $3.50
as; choice heavy bulls. $6.50@7; fair
to good bolognas, bulls. s5.75@6.25;
stock bulls, $5@550: choice feeding
steers, 500 to 1000 fos., S79750; fair
feeding steers, 500 to 100 lbs, $50
CTS; choice stockers, 500 to 700 MS.
$6.5O@7; fair stockers, 500 TO 700 lbs.
$5.50Q6; stock heifers. $5G5.50; milk
ers, large, yonng, medium age, $500
SIS; common mixers. $35Q45.
Veal calves-Receipts, 4OS; market
good grades. 25c to soc higher than
the close last week; common, steady;
best, $l0011.50; others. s6d9,50.
Mich cows and springers, steady.
Sheep and lambs--Receipts 2,2S1;
market, steady; best lambs. $S.75; fair
to good lambs, sSGS.50; light 10 com
mon lambs. s6@75O; yearlings cd
as; fair to good sheep, $j.j0M 90;
culls and commons. s4G5.
Hogs-Receipts, $780,; range u
prices: Light to good butchers. $3.50
pigs, $3.50; light workers.. $9.40O9.50;
| stays one.third off.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03

Eaton Rapids.-The annual ban.
quet and roll call of Friendship
lodge. Knights of Pythias OF this
city. was the big lodge and social
function of the season In this city. GOV.
ers being laid for $50 Pythians and in
vited guests. The speakers were
Grand Chancellor Charles Nichols OF
Lansing and Vice-Grand Chancellor II.
T. vanDewalker Of Ypsilanti. The
function was held I'm the new Pythian
temple, which is one of the largest
and finest equipped Knights OF Pythlas
lodge rooms in the state, outside OF
Detroit.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
STATEMENTS

Marquette. Marquette county is
70 have third labor temple"
The Coming Nation Hall COM
pany has been organized at Ishpeming
with capitalization OF $4,000 and
will erect a building in that city on a
site already acquired. A $4,000 struc-
ture is planned. Marquette and Negau-
nee each has labor temple" each
owned and conducted by an associs-
ton OF Finnish Socialists. The Com
ing Nation Hall company is an organi-
zation OF the same description.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03

Petoskey.-Two boys brought
here from Alanson. believed to
be the Cone brothers. slsyers Of
John Thrush at Buckley. were lie.
leased.
The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03

Hastings.-For the purpose OF dis
cussing plans for organizing n
commandery in Hastings, local Ma
sons intend to hold meeting in the
near future. All of the Hastings lodges
are fourishing, and many have signi-
fed to take higher degrees II higher
lodge is established. The nearest
commandery is in Charlotte. 20 miles
away.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-02

motion, taste, smell, everything in it from the
brain of genius to the hoof of hoe-s made
up OF eiectrons gathered in atoms, they gath
cred in molecules and the molecules gathered
in the mass
Mlllikan, of the Chicago University. has iso-
iateo the atom, suspended atoms in vacuum,
captured them in the field of the telescope
made them visible, PROVED THEIR Ex-
lSIENCE. He has measured the in6ntes;-
nal which makes up the infinite that we call
the universe
L MS man has proved the constant motion of
matter. tic is pioneer of cosmic knowledge
Beside this man working H. T. Gale de-
veloping important new discoveries in snectro-
scopy-working out problems of the conpo-
sl'ion or hight which reveals the universe to us
through our eyes-and ]. u Nef, professor Of
chemistry, who has mapped out new lines Of
thought discovery in organic chemistrv-
which is to say the chemistry and composition
of living bodies
Plate asked, What is truth?"
science to-day asks, What is life?" Nef
Is one OF the thinkers working to answer that
question He studies the secret of conscious
ness, as Millikan studies the comnos;+;o- &c
matter
l. T. Chamberlain and with him F. r. Moul
ION are working in the geological and cosmo.
logical field of mathematics-slightlv deem for
us average mortalS
AS Milikan studies the electron. and Nef
the living cell invisible to the eve. Chamber
IAN and Moulton study planets and suns
i'lllion times as big as our sun, which in it's
urn is million times as big as our earth.
Chamberlains studies and what apnear RI
DC his important discoveries" would exnlode
the theories of La Place, whose exclamation IF
the birth of planets in space has hitherto been
accepted
chamberlain has announced what he calls
me planetesima theory of the universe. He
oeleves that very small planets-such as those
mat whri around in space near US supplvins
uS "i'h meteors and others much bigger have
come together and created the bigger planets
IN turn being scattered by cataclysms and
reunited, and SO on indefinitely.
ms theory would destroy the nebular the
DRY OF La Place, upon which science has he.n
uo%'ng Tor some generations. Chamberla;n,s
WORK may be described as "cosmolog;cal stud
les OF geology, tending to explain throuoh ~.
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geological investigation of this earth the en-
tire cosmos"
while Chamberlain studies the great ques-
tlon by analysis mathematical geoloeist
4. s. Frost, director of the observatory at Lake
Geneva and boss of the great Yerkes tele.
scope, studies the outside suns, planets and
neoula lace to lace. He is the lookout man"
OF our ship, the earth, watching for new stel-
lar bodies, comets, nebulae, ct cetera, as the
lookout on ship watches for other shps and
tor icebergs.
oPectroscopic work, measuring istances, in
Vestgatlon OF the carpentry of the universe
IS Frosts work. With him, connected with the
great telescope and with the University. are
Frotessor Barnard, who makes a speciality of
comets, and Professor Burnham The latter
curious to say is clerk of the City Court, and
the most famous double star man" in exis
tence.
"A double star-two gigantic suns harnessed
together by gravitation and kept apart by the
power OF motion. is something fascinating to
the mind of an intelligent man-althoueh the
savage eating hippopotamus would not think
so.
Then there is F. A. Lille, a Woodworking
scientist, in spite of the fact that he might be
spending millions. He is like Millkan, a stu
dent OF the problem of life, in charge of the
station at Woods Hole, founded by r A.
Whitman, the great biologist now dead
And then there is Professor Nicholson.
1t this were planet inhabited by civilized
beings, every child ten years old would know
the name OF this man-whereas now every
child knows the name of some military muir
derer instead.
Nicholson, of Chicago University, is the man
who won the Nobel prize-an honor much
tie.
This man, working in the Chicago Unver-
sity for considerably less than we paw some
frst-class newspaper reporters, is beyond ques-
ton the greatest physicist-that is to saw the
greatest student of physical phenomena now
living.
1t would take several newspapers as big as
this, with considerably more knowledge than
this write possesses to give even feeble out
line of this mans work
1t was he who told the scientific world what
1T did not know-the speed at which light trav-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-02

els through space. Upon that speed is based
all our knowledge of distance throughout the
universe. AS very young man, teaching his
students at Annapolis, he corrected the sup
posed speed of light and made every scientist
his debtor
besides measuring the speed of light and
thus furnishing to scientists a cosmic yard
stick with which to measure distances of bill
lions of miles, Nicholson gave to the people on
this earth scientific yardstick-absolutely in
variable, with which to correct earthly dis
tances-and cheating merchants
The French have their absolute metre. which
is the basis of all decimal measurements.
SO many times the length of this metre gives
the distance around the earth
A certain number Of cubic centimetres of
water weighed at certain temperature at a
certain distance above the earth gives the
French kilogram which is the measure of
weight-thus the French measure all money
based on the weight of gold
Having got their exact metre by spending
mlllions-which included the effort to meas
ure the earth's circumference exactlv-the
French took every precaution to have their
metre safe forever so that there could be no
mistake and no cheating
They have their metre made of platinum,
precious metal that resists the action of heat
and cold. This metre is supposed to represent
one forty-n1illionth part of the earth's crcurn-
terence, and it is kept buried forty feet under
ground in order to escape variations of tenn
perature, by the international Bureau of
Weights and Measures, at Breteuil, near Sew
res, just outside of Paris.
Nicholson made all Of that precaution IN
necessary by giving to the world the exact
measurement or length of light wave Gin
terms of a standard metre" That is to saw.
he measured exactly, which any scientist NAV
do hereafter, the length of the red radiation
from cadmium vapor. This was an intricate
process. No one had ever done it.
Nicholson was able to tell the Frenchmen.
Take the length of the red radiation from
Cadmium vapor in vacuum through which
an electric spark is passed. Multiply it by two
million and fraction-giving the exact fig
ures-and you will have your metre If some
body should steal your metre of platinum, or
II an unexpected volcano should burst out and
melt it, you could get from the cadmium raw
OF light, correctly measured, the same result