East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-01-20

or natures handi~ork In her at
tempts to better appearances she Of
ten works against the very aim she
wishes 70 attain. FurbsIOEz and paint
10 not make girl look nice They
make her look like an actress one
may best improve on nature b. cuiti-
waiting good health AMI cheerful.
kindly. unselfish spirit and the process
Is not expensive either.
Here IL another point 1t IN the
fact that as rule those who are re-
ally wealthy or who have arrived al
distinction by some other route do not
90 about advertising themselves 0y
gzudlness of dress or By eXtrava-
gance of manner. No need Of IL II
.s the would be rich or the would be
great that resort 70 artihciality to
make q shGw. 4 story The Custom
of the Country" in the current num-
Der Of the Century tells of western
giri who vent to New York hoping TO
break into society. having a. assets a
wealthy father and some personal
beauty she was disillusioned many
times People who from appearances
she thought were OF the cream she
found were only bubbles When she
had a glance at the inner circle she
vas amazed at the simplicity there
and the lack OF ostentAtion. The
place was not nearly as stylish look
ing as the gilded hotel where she
lived II was not what she expected.
High school girls are not the only
people who get wrong impressions as
to the worth Of things. Errors along
this line are very general these days.
However a, high school is a fine place
for the correction Of such mistakes.
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What people wont try these days is
not worth while. This is shown anew
by a scheme a Brooklyn
Fixing an engineer has proposed for
Ocean. fixing the Atlantic ocean
Here is the story:
G. l. Riker a Brooklyn engineer
has come forward with a proposal for
reducing the chances Of another IT.
tanic disaster By helping the Atlantic
ocean TO build a dam through its wa
ters for about 200 miles Mr.. Riker's
project has the Enforcement Of so en-
inent an engineer az Lewis Nixon, and
the New York board Of trade and
transportation has called attention To
il by formal resolution. Hence jokes
about 1t as giving one side Of Green
land a summer resort climate" and as
the promotion OF orange growing in
Iceland" must be regarded as some.
what out OF place.
The reason why icebergs are num-
erous and fogs frequent for about zoo
miles TO the eastward Of Cape Race Is
that there the warm current Of the
Gulf stream collides with the cold
current coming down from the Arctic
in the shallow waters known as tht
Grand Banks Of Newfoundland. In
fact that 200 mile shoal was probably
produced by the collision Of these
warm and cold rivers Of the ocean
Mr.. Riker proposes TO hasten th'
building Of this shoal into dam OF
jetty by laying steel cables along 1t
The anticipated final result would b.
to defect the Labrador current 10 th'
eastward into deep water where i
could dive under the Gulf stream
without the present conflict and thu
formation Of eddies In which Iceberg
drift about. The idea Is that instead
OF punching" az they do now. tn
icebergs would pass rapidly southwark
and sooner melt.
1t is pointed out in defense Of tn
reasonableness Of Mr.. Riker's schem
that the plan lis not more far fetche'
than was the plan Of James b. Fad
for deepening the Mississippi at 1t
mouth and which plan worked success
fully