Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-11
st. Valentines Day.
From Golfers Weekly.

st. Valentines Day.
From Golfers Weekly.
Some folks find everything recent
worse than what is old. Among other
things the behavior of youth is con-
demned as more thoughtless and in
consequential than ever before. The
young girl is called Internationally
silly in regard to men. But Just read
this confession of young girl in 1854
Last Friday was st. Valentines
Day, and the night before | got five
bay leaves and pinned four on the cor
ners of my pillow and the fifth TO the
middle, and then If ] dreamt of my
sweetheart t-'v said we should be
married befof the year was out. But
to make it more sure I boiled an egg
hard and took out the yolk and filed
it with salt, and when I went to bed
ate 1t, shell and all, without speaking
or drinking after it. We also wrote
our lovers names upon bits Of paper
and rolled them up in clay and put
them into water, and the first that
rose was to be our valentine. Would
you think it? Mr.. Blossom was my
man. | lay abed and shut my eyes
all the morning till he came to our
house for I would not have seen an
other man before him for all the
world
Probably the popular song today is
the most inane form that the alpha
bet has ever taken. And vet in the
eighteenth century THE Cabinet of
Love; or Cupid's Repository" used
to contain this sort of thing:
The beauties of her polished mind,
II needs no lovers eye to find;
The hermit freezing in his cell,
Might wish the gentle Flavia well.
s,,11 1Ipxt
ed 1.-The hook" And just listen;
You are the girl I take delight in
Much more than haddock, smelts or
whiting"
This may not be quite so bad as the
contemporary popular song, but it
isn't worlds away. Possibly. after
all, our predecessors didn't have so
much on us in the line of perfection.
Cost of Radium to BE Cut.
From Mining Science.
Three methods for the extraction of
radium from carnotite have been de-
vised and tested at the Denver labor
atory of the United States Bureau of
Mines. The government chemists
have worked them out on a labora-
tory scale, and apparently all three
are practicable. To determine which
of the three is the most economical
is the purpose of an investigation now
under way at the plant which has just
been completed in Denver by the Ma
cional Radium Institute.
1t is believed that a method will be
evolved that will greatly reduce the
expense of obtaining radium from the
ore, and this will mean a correspond
ing reduction in the price of radium
salts, as the cost reproduction here
tofore has been very largely the
costs in the mill and laboratory.
The work of the plant of the Ma
tional Radium Institute will be under
the direct supervision of the govern
ment chemists by whom the labora-
tory work was done, and when the
best method has been determined all
of the results of the investigation are
to be given to the public. This is
part of the agreement between the
National Radium Institute and the
Bureau of Mines. 1t is also agreed
that the government shall receive a
certain percentage of the radium
produced at the new plant. Many
incorrect reports concerning the
enterprise have been circulated.
AS soon as the investigation on
commercial scale is completed full
report will be published AS govern
ment chemists will be in charge and
in possession of all the facts there
will be no opportunity for the man
agement of the institute to hold back
information. II the method proves
as successful as the chemists hope
cheaper radium will soon be placed
on the market. There will be no
secrets to prevent anyone from en-
gaging in the production of the much
sought-for element