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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
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soldier, when on duty, has all his expenses paid
and besides that he receives a daily compensa-
ton of 16 cents. Recruits receive a daily COM
pensatiOn of 10 cents"
In the early days of the European war it would
have been of tremendous advantage to either
France or Germany to violate the neutrality Of
Switzerland by sending troops across her terri
tory in fanking movements against the enemy.
But little Switzerland was ready and waiting to
punish any such international outlawry. Bel
GUM wasn't
In Australia all males between eighteen and
sixty years are liable to military service in time
of war, according to an article by Bertram
Stevens in Golfers Weekly. Every boy not
physically unfit passes into the junior cadet force
and u%ndergoes physical training and elementary
drill for two years; at fourteen becomes a senior
cadet and serves four years, completing 40 drills
each year: at eighteen enters the citizen soldiery
and is liable for 16 days training every year for
seven years and one parade in the eighth year.
AT the end of 1914, three years after the COM
pulsory-training law went into effect, Australia
had more than $1,000 senior cadets, about $4,000
Junior cadets in training, together with $1,000
citizen soldiers. That country has a population
of a little more than 5000, O00-about as many
persons as live in New York city proper.
By 1888, Australia will be a democracy in which
every healthy citizen has been trained to take his
place In the firing line, and would have to do so
were his country invaded.
The principal difficulty about the inception of
tne compulsory system arose from the boys them
selves. The Australian is halfway between the
Briton and the American, but he is more individu-
alistic than the Briton. He objects to restraint
and hates to call a man "sir." At first many of the
boys resented discipline, their easy-going parents
did not help the authorities and there were many
prosecutions for evasion of drills. When it was
seen that the government was in earnest, how
ever, the boys and their parents accepted the
plan and now seem to like II.
Authorities say there is already a marked i'm
provement in the physical and moral character
of the youth, and generally a tendency toward a
sense of responsibility.
Americans who have seen the French republics
system of universal service in operation say that
II is not only an effective means of national de-
Tense against foreign enemies, but. quite as i'm
portant, is a very practical organization for the
prevention of class prejudice. The poor fisher
man son from Brittany likely as not will have
for his bunk mate during their period of training
the son of a Paris banker. The rich and poor.
the a%ristocrat and commoner, are thrown con-
stanly together during barrack days.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
FIRE PREVENTION PAYS WELL
Safe Construction Lowers Insurance
and Reduces Depreciation
Repairs Cost Little.

If the walls and roof of the house
are of fire-resistant material fully GO
per cent of the fire hazard is overcome,
says the writer of an article on Com
non Sense Home Building which is
published in the June issue of Con-
struction. In the interior it is not nee
essary to eliminate wood from the fin
ishing. There is no objection to trim
OF doors and even the floors above the
first may be of wood.
The basement should, by all means,
De cut off from the rest of the house
by a masonry floor, protected stairway
and fireproOf doors connecting with
the first floor. Partitions should be of
fire-resistive material in order to check
the rapid spread of flames. IN other
words, think of fire as it really is and
use common sense in the construction
of the house.
In most localities a house of this
type is credited with a noticeable re-
duction in insurance cost. Naturally.
too, the cost of maintenance is re-
duced, painting and repairs are not
necessary. Another saving factor is
the matter of depreciation. A frame
house with wood shingles, built as they
are today, will depreciate just three
times as quickly as a masonry house
with a common-sense roof.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
CHINESE DISLIKE SOLDIERS
Unlike the Japanese They Have a Con-
tempt for the Professional
Fighting Man.

The ~well-known olden dislike of,
even contempt for, soldiers common
to the industrious masses of Chine,
in town as in country, is based on
their experience that the soldier is. n
loafer most of the time and a terror to
the country when war is in the air.
They have not glorified valor or quite
grasped the beauty, not to say the
duty, of dying for ones country, al
though when they do fight they face
death with a great Indifference.
Discussing this phase of the Chinese
character, Yone Noguchi, the Japanese
writer, says in the course of a recent
article, according to East and West:
'"This Chinese hatred of soldiery bust
ness or the encouragement of effemi-
nate Incidence is well explained in a
famous ballad written by Pc Chu-i
called The Arm Broken Old Man.
This old man was not informed till
he received in his youth an order to
BECOME a soldier and Intentionally
broke his arm in order to be excused
from such a duty. Although his arm
panied badly on a cold or rainy day,
he was glad to be thankful for it, for
while his friends had been killed in
the battlefield, he alone could enjoy
a long life. What a different sentiment
from that of us japanese, whose loyal
ty to the flag and the imperial house
is taught to begin with the sighting
of our own lives"
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chicano,s City PIanninn-

Chicago, the premier American city
in c~ity-planning work, is about to in
wade the world of the movies"
1t is going to show other municipali-
ties how to make themselves more at
tractive, healthful and prosperous, and
as an object lesson will display views
of ~present-day and future Chicago to
millions of people throughout the Unit
ed States, Canada and Europe.
To satisfy demands made by more.
than a hundred American cities whicha
are watching Chicago's planning eff
forts, the Chicago plan commission has
arranged to have the entire Chicago,
plan put in film form.
The national, state, county and city
officials in Chicago, members of the
Commercial club, members of the plan
commission and the officers and direc-
tors of the leading civic, social and
commercial organizations, industrial
clubs, real estate board and women's
clubs are to be visualized.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
TO GET FANCY PRICES

To secure q fancy price for eggs, you must be
absolutely certain that every egg sold is fresh.
Don't leave an egg in nest for nest egg. You
might accidentally get one in gathering and send
it to your custOmer-then good-by customer. When
the breeding season is over sell all the ROSTERS,
or If you have a few good ones you wish to
keep, pen them up. Then you can get a fancy
price for infertile eggs, which are in great de-
mand. Clean all soiled eggs with a damp cloth
and dry well, so they will not shine. Keep all
small and imperfect eggs at home. Fill each
layer with eggs of the same size, they look so
much better that way. Pack carefully, so they
will reach the customer in good condition, and
absolutely guarantee every egg to be fresh. You
will not have any trouble in getting and hold
ing customers for all you can produce, at several
cents above the market price.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
Waiting!

By
Mrs. Alvah Gordon Garth
Copyright, 1916. by W. q. Chapman.)


"Going home, Livingstone"
"With fear and trembling"
"Becnuse-2"
For answer Royce Livingston took
out his memorandum book. He point
ed to q page. 1t was q record of auto
hire, suppers, theater parties and hab-
~erdashery. 1t footed up two hundred
and s~eventy-eight dollars. Ned Girls
com puckered his lips to a low amazed
whistle.
pretty steep. ehT' questioned
Royce, his brief laugh full of assumed
indifference. 81 don't know what my
Aunt Marcia will say to IL, but I've
got to tell her. My creditors will wait
just one week into the vacation. Then
action"
"As how, now?"
Notify my aunt, and then a row, l
can tell you for l have %overdrawn my
allowance every month of the present
term"
"She must like you, Livingston"
"Im all she has In the way of rela-
tons, and a poor specimen, I'm free to
say. Dear woman! She's cared for me
ever since her sister, my mother, died.
Never a scolding word-sweet, patient,
self-sacriicing-oh, I'm a cad, / am ~
and Royce strobe away, hating him
self.
He had reason to say "Dear wom-
an" for Aunt Marcia had been a
veritable mother to him. The worst
of 1t was, it struck him, she was posi-
lively proud of him. His Juvenile
picadilloes she had never chided. AS
he grew older and some of his wild
capers came to her notice, she passed
them by as the evanescent and I'M
%avoidable ebullition of growing man.
hood. Royce felt thoroughly ashamed
of himself.
an cut it all out. I'll amount to
something and be a credit to the fam
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In regular military fashion. Including range and
field work. Preparatory work for Young men he
tween the ages or sixteen and twenty years in
Guides athletics, marching, care and use of the
service rifle, and target practice. These nreIim-
mary training courses are taken usually by Young
men who hope to win commissions in the regular
army.
Military instruction is given at the expense of
the SWISS Confederation by a special instruction
corps. Recruiting schools are established in diff
ferent cities throughout the land. and while there
Is no choice in the service, each man is at liberty
to decide whether he would like to belong to the
infantry or cavalry. Cavalry soldiers generally
have to provide their own horses.
Men intended for the infantry have to serve
for Go days in a school for recruits; cavalrymen
have to serve for 90 days; field and mountain ar
ullerymen 20 days, engineers, 70 days; transport
men, AZ days, and ambulance men, 60 days. The
cavalry and all the forces of the auszug have to
take a yearly repetition course lasting IL days.
Landwehr forces now have their exercises every
four years. Special courses and training natural
ly are required in the cases of soldiers who are
DESTROYS of advancing to higher grades.
Regular rifle practice each year is required of
every soldier, and If a man does not attain the
required mark he is ordered, to do special prac-
tice work under the supervision of instructors.
These rigid rules, and the natural enthusiasm of
the Swiss for rifle shooting, are responsible for
the unrivaled position they hold in the world as
crack shots. There is hardly a village which has
not its rifle club, and local, cantonal and federal
shooting matches are held at regular intervals.
Switzerland was able to retain for the sew
enteenth time out of IS the world championship,
on the occasion of the ri1e-shooting contest in
Viborg, Holland, in 1914. 1t may be remembered
that in 1918 the Swiss were victors at Camp
Perry, Ohio. The one worlds contest they have
lost was held in Turin, Italy, in 1898.
SIN the Swiss army every man is allowed to
keep his rifle and uniform at home, and when the
mobilization order is piVan fhn antira army pnn
be ready for action within the shortest notice.
The yearly inspection of armament and equip
ment at which every soldier, without exception,
has to appear, is an effective preventive against
any possible neglect in that line. However, there
is no fear that a Swiss soldier would in any way
neglect that which has been intrusted to him by
his country; his rifle is his hobby and, Ibis uniform
receives the constant care one would give to a
precious pet.
"Only the instructors, the general staff and a
few other officials receive a regular salary. The
officers are paid only for the short period they
are called upon for training, and the common
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
E]ONUt11INl
60-@A0
o~~S-2
MAKE PARKS OF BACKWARDS
Baltimore Has Demonstrated That
Division Fences May Probably
Be Done Away With.

II has already been c~onvincingly
demonstrated, here in Baltimore, that
the scheme of tearing down division
fences. between city home b~ackyards
and developing the unobstructed
stretch Of space thus provided as a
continuous flower garden or a grassed
lawn, is no chimerical or impractical
dream. 1t has been demonstrated be-
cause 1t has been done on several back
stretches and partially accomplished
in hundreds of instances. By partially
accomplished we mean those instances
where two or three or four adjoining
h~ouseholders have thrown their back
yards into a ommon and developed
the enlarged spaces into flower gar
dens. This backyard park idea, de-
veloped to the limit of potentiality,
would mean the tearing down of all
fences on both sides the midway alley
and beautifying all the yards upon
some harmonious scheme of orna-
mental gardening.
There are comparatively few block
centers in which this complete scheme
of ornamentation can be realized, for
the reason that many owners wish to
build a garage, a stable or some other
kind Of outbuilding in the backyard
and fronting along the alley. While
the placing of rear buildings in one or
more of the backyards of a block in
terferes with the complete realization
of the backyard parking scheme, it
need not prevent the partial carry
ing out of the plan. And as to back
buildings. their ugliness and inhar-
mony can be greatly modified by
planting climbing roses or other climb
ing vines along their sides and real
ends. There is nothing so unitarian
not even a stable-that every thought
of Identification should be abandoned
In connection with it.-Baltimore
American.
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dress, filmy, almost eerie-like, she was
CARRIED as II for a wedding ceremony.
Except that the delicate flaments of
apparel were old, yellow, in places
frayed out and torn, she might be q
bride awaiting the call to the altar.
She sat rigid, though graceful, her
set sad eyes, her whole pose one of
expectancy, as though each moment
she anticipated the arrival of her
bridesmaids. Then the curtain tapped
close and the strange startling pic
ture was shut from view. Royce
rubbed. his eyes, he marveled. He
reached his room by the old surrepti-
tious route. Then he hy awake, crop
ing vainly in his mind for a key to
this uncanny mystery.
His aunt greeted him at the table
next morning, her old gracious, kind
ly self. She al still a beautiful wom-
an, under forty, and not a trace of her
weary vigil that surely commemorated
some vivid event In the long gone past.
And for the first time that afternoon
Royce learned of the in the
life of his aunt. Ten years ago she
had been engaged to, a man named
Rolfe Gregory. The marriage day was
set, the evening arrived. She was all
ready for the ceremony when a note
came from Gregory. He babe her
farewell forever-he could not marry
her. He would love her to the end of
life, but n great barrier had been
raised against all future happiness.
And Aunt Marcia still loved her re-
creant lover, thus Royce reasoned, else
why this annual vigil, remindful of
the expectedly most happy moment of
her life? Royce began an investiga-
ton. He located Rolfe Gregory in a
city five hundred miles away. He de-
voted the money Aunt Marcia had
given him to ferreting out this man.
Royce found Rolfe Gregory leading
a lonely bachelor life, a sad, cherries
nan of forty. He formed his acquaint-
ance, he learned his secrets.
On the eve of his wedding his father
was confronted with a prosecution for
fraud in his business. In no way could
1t be averted save through money. In
no way could the money be secured
except through Gregory's marriage to
an heiress who loved him. He made
the sacrifice, his wife lived two years.
Since then he had lived a hermit life
existence, ashamed to seek again the
only woman he had eve loved.
"There is someone to see you in
the parlor, Aunt Marcia" Royce said
one day, "a broken, penitent man with
n sad, sad story to tell. You will
listen to it,"
as 1t Rolfe Gregory" she spoke.
and sweetly, patiently.
Eyes, Aunt Marcia"
81 knew he would come back to me
in time" she said simply.
He had come back-to remain
Their tears mingled and then their
kisses. Time had not soured them
1t had mellowed them, had made them
patient and forgiving, and a future
lowered.
1t was a future hallowed by another
issue: the regeneration of Royce Liv,
ingston. He had done a grand act In
bringing those two starving souls to,
gether, and, somehow, a new ambition
and manlier impulses came into his
young life.
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lily name" he resolved. "When 1 get
home I'll tell the whole miserable story
of my folly and extravaganza to Aunt
Marcia, and turn over a new leaf,
strictly"
Royce was not destined to see his
aunt when he arrived at Ferndale the
next morning. The old family servant
me- him at the door and greeted him
with genuine pleasure in her face. She
was Mary Barker, true as steel to her
mistress and loyal to all of her kin.
The house was in sterling order. a
royal breakfast lay spread, specially
prepared for one, and he obviously
the honored guest. When she showed
him later to his room he found it
newly furnished, a box of cigars on
a stand, everything accessible for
comfort and luxury, a check on his
dressing table for one hundred dollars
and beside 1t q little stack of paper
slips inclosed by a rubber band.
They were his college bills and all
marked paid" A little note said:
'Enjoy yourself after your hard term.
I shall not see you today, as 1 am con-
fined to my ROOM" Royce was over
come. Not a word of reproach, the
way cleared for perfect freedom from
care or annoyance. He swallowed q
big lump in his throat and registered
a renewed solemn vow to mend his
reckless ways.
But youth is youth and loneliness a
bore, and towards afternoon Royce got
tired of reading and strolling in the
garden and ~lounging about.
81 hope my aunt isn't sick, Mary"
he remarked to the old servant.
"Oh. bless you, now !" was promptly
responded. you see, this is the twen-
t~y-eighth."
"Of whatY' demanded Royce be-
whereby.
"Of June. Why, don't you know?
oh, I've put my foot in It'll I
thought" and Mary darted away,
flushed and discomposed.
"a mystery here" s~oliloquized
Royce, and then forgot all about 1t
when he reached the village billiard
room, met some old village chums,
went to a travelling show that hap
pened to be in town, and started for
home at nearly midnight.
A night key had been trustfully left
on his dresser by his confiding aunt,
anil Royce counted oil getting to his
room quietly. When he came to search
for 1t, however. he found that he had
lost 1t somewhere from his pocket. He
recalled old boyish days and a GER
tain low window at the rear of the
house. Royce started around the wing.
Then he halted In sheer amazement.
He had never known It's upper room
to be occupied. 1t had been kept al
ways locked up. 1t was occupied now.
A shade at an open window was flut-
terlng In the strong night breeze and
he could see plainly into the lighted
room beyond.
A remarkable picture met his per-
picked vision. His aunt sat In the
center of the room. She was arrayed
In the garb Of a bride. Veil. wreath.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21

A fuel economy exceeding 10 per
cent is claimed for a French device
that heats water, before it reaches To-
connective boilers, with exhaust steam.
When a torpedo is discharged, wa
ter OF the same weight automatically
hows into the submarines tanks, SO
that the poise of the vessel is pre-
served.
The government of British India
mas sent an expert to the United States
to study American methods Of cotton
production and other agricultural
questions
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
FIND BABY ALLIGATOR IN POND.

It has long been known that East Tennessee
had practically everything to be found in any
quarter of the earth, but a recent discovery in
Clinton brings to light the fact that it also has
a~lligators which live in subterranean streams.
Workmen who were eXcavating for the new build
ings of the Magnet knitting mills in this city last
week set off a blast which uncovered a subterra-
mean pond or stream, and from the water was
taken an alligator 20 inches in length, and very
much alive. How the reptile came in the water
nuder the town is something which no one knows
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
Had Been praetIeIna.

II shall never scold my husband
again for spending so much time at
the club !" 'Tell M about It'll" swell,
last night a burglar got into the house
and my husband knocked him sense
less with the poker. I've heard sew
eral men speak of him as a poker ex-
pert. He has evidently been practic-
ing at the club for just such an emer-
gency i"-Judge.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
RHODE ISLAND REDS.

QD They are a large breed and very easy to
keep.
(2) They lay well all the year round, with very
little care and food during the winter months.
We have a flock of about so layers and get on an
average of 80 eggs a day the entire year.
CD They are good sitters, seldom leaving the
nest when set properly.
(D The young chickens are of a good size and
plump, and also healthy, being ready to eat or
market in about 10 or u weeks after Matching.
() They are splendid f~oragers, going a rea-
sonable distance out in the fields in search of
bugs and other insects for the young chicks.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21

Portable houses that can be carried
In an automobile and set up in a short
time in n convenient place. are a
French invention.
Pieces of rubber sponge cover a new
metal case in which soap can be car
ried, water finding its way to the soap
forming a lather that exudes through
the sponge.
German scientists have invented a
glass for X-ray photography that alb
serbs only from 10 to 10 per cent of
the rays. permitting much sharper pic
lures to be made than heretofore,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
FROM ALL THE WORLD

Chief Justice Winslow of Wisconsin
supreme court has completed 25 years
on the bench.
Some $50 miles northwest of Win
nipeg a paper mill is being built to
turn out 100 tons a day.
Naturalists have estimated that a
single crow can destroy about 7OO,-
900 insects In one year.
Pressing a lever projects a slide
down the tines of a new cold meat fork
to remove its contents neatly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
FACTS OF INTEREST

A collapsible poultry crate is a new invention
that is expected to prove a great convenience to
shippers
According to the census reports, 263, S15 girl
stenographers and typewriters are employed in
the United States.
Total investment in film concerns, moving pic
lures and accessories in this country is said to
be more than $1,000, 900, 900.
>Towers OF the Panama cathedral are rooted
with pearl shells, which reflect the sunlight SO
that they can be seen far out at sea.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
The Household IncInerator.

An aid in sanitation especially use
full in the country is a small garbage
incinerator which can be attached to
the ordinary kitchen range. The sur
plus heat from the range will dry the
garbage in a short time. After all the
moisture has been taken up, a damper
is opened, which allows a draft from
the firebox to pass over the dried gar
bage and consume it to ashes in a
few minutes. The ashes can be re-
moved from the ~incinerator without
being mixed with those Of the range.
The garbage ashes constitute a valua-
BILE fertilizer.
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francs. AL the age OF
eight years the Swiss
schoolboy begins his
course of physical train
ing, which is gradually
developed until he is six
teen years old. Then
come the cadet corps, in
which the boys undergo
all the preliminary exer-
cises and where they re-
ceive thorough and sys-
tematic instruction in
rifle shooting. The rifle
used in the cadet corps
is, of course, a smaller
and lighter model than
the regulation army rifle.
Rifle practice for the
youngsters is accorded