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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-08
Treatment of Walls.

II molding is liked from which to
hang the pictures that do so much to
make our rooms homelike, the best
height for the molding Is in line with
the top of the doors. The modern idea
seems to be to bring the window wood
work to the floor by using paneling
beneath the sill. and to carry the tops
of doors and windows to fixed line
the molding line. Thus the walls are
divided into rectangular spaces, and
the decorative effect of a good paper
is enhanced. A plain paper has the
dignity Of a panel when so used.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-08
Little Coat of Blocked Silk

for small girls. The latest fad In
trimming is to make the revers Of
white faille or cloth and the collar
Of black velvet. It is a charming
combination and not unreasonably ex-
pensive. In medium size the coat
shown here requires 2M yards 54-inch
or 39s yards 36-inch material. The
back of the design extends over the
shoulders forming q yoke effect. II
it is desired not to have the re-
vers, the coat may be finished in
high effect at the neck, with turn
down collar. The fulness about the
waistline may be gathered or smock-
ed, and half-belt of velvet added.
The back of the coat is laAl on
lengthwise fold of material, thus
avoiding a seam. The collar is placed
to the right. The front, sleeves. and
undertaking are placed on a length
wise thread. If the silk is only SO
inches wide, it will be necessary to
cut the model from an open width
of material, two widths being used
at time, laid right sides facing, SO
that section will be cut in duplicate.
Cape effects are so much in demand
this season that the trimming has
been provided in this instance. There
is practically no difference in the
placing of the pattern sections, ex-
cept that the capes are laid on a
lengthwise fold with the back and
collar.
A coat of this design is charming
fashioned of light colored silk with
capes of organdy, Of chiffon cloths
For party wear or gala occasions
nothing is daintier for the miss OF
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-08
Liver Tone" Is Harmless II
cIsaa Your Sluggish Liver
and Bowels.

Ughi Calomel makes you sick. It's
rriblei Take a dose of the dangerous
ug tonight and tomorrow you may lose
days work.
Caiomel 10 mercury or quicksilver
ich causes necrosis of the bones,
lionel, when it comes into contact
tn sour bile crashes into it, breaking
up. This is when you feel that awful
usea and cramping. If you are slug.
il and @all knocked out" if your
'er is torpid and bowels constipated
you have headache, dizziness, coated
ngae, II breath is bad or stomach sour,
st try q spoonfulfof harmless Dodson's
YER Tone tonight on my guarantee.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-08
What the Bible Contains.

Somebody possessed of unlimited
time and patience has figured that the
Bible contains 3,5S6,473 letters, form
ing 1858 words, 31,737 verses, 1,189
chapters and &C books.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-08
Justified.

"How on earth did Binks acquire
that tremendously exaggerated con-
ceptlon Of his own importance?"
"Oh! il is not exaggerated. He went
on fishing trip yesterday. and turned
out to be the only member Of the
party who had thought to provide him
self with q cnrkscrnrr. ,'--Rlchmnnd
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-08

When Making Your Fortune.
II you set out to be the architect Of
your own fortune, keep in mind that
the building inspector will be along
later.-Youth's Companion.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-08
Foxes Good Rat catchers.

Foxes have been trained to catch
rats by man residing in Ambergate.
Derbyshire. England. He claims that
they are better than dogs for the work.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-08
MANY Reject Pork.

More than half of the worlds popu
latien still regards meat of swine as
unfit for human consumption.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-08
Hay and Straw on Platforms.

In Mexico, farmers instead of fenc-
ing In their hay and straw stacks.
erect them on platforms out of the
reach of cattle.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13
nr GARRETr p. sERvIss.

IF Venus is aware OF the attention
she Is attracting. of the admirins
Il remarks she calls forth, and OF the
perplexity she is causing to some Peo-
pie who wonder who and what she is'
she ought to blush as red as her ardent
brother. Mars. Everybody is asking
about her, as il she were a stranger
suddenly entering a ballroom unan-
nounced. unattended. and fixing every
eye with her beaming beauty.
A few definite facts about this tas-
cinating celestial parsonage woulu
evidently be welcomed by the large
number of writer's of letters about her
that have recently been received
The first fact to ne noted Is that
the bright star. without a rival, which
shines i'm the west early in the even
ing" is no star at all, but IS the planet
Venus. She retires early and shoulo oe
looked for before 9-best about 3. AS
one writer has remarked, she wears
an aureole when the sky IS misty
When the sky is clear il would be dit-
ficult to imagine anything more
radiantly beautiful than her appear
arce. But she Will grow more 0Ill-
liant still until near the end OF May,
when she viii be one-third brighter
than she is at present.
Just now about one-half Of her disk,
as seen from the earth. is Illuminated
by the sun, so that If YOU look at her
with a telescope she viii be seen in
the form of the moon when II is at
first or last quarter. She Will draw
nearer to the earth until the beginning
of July, when she will pass between
the earth and the sun. and then re-
appear in the morning SKY.
During May and early June she VIII
appear in a telescope in the form OF
beautiful crescent, gradually getting
thinner and more delicate as she draws
nearer the sun.
She has been making this circuit
regularly ever since the human race
began. and yet she always comes back
into the evening sky with the same
surprising effect.
Once in every 5S4 days she reap
pears in the character of evening
star" and every time people imagine
she is something new. The ancient
Chaldeans. the Egyptians, the Greeks.
the Romans, all watched her as We do
TODAY. and no doubt She found them as
forgetful at each return as she finds
most OF us now.
Venus is a world practically OF the
same size as this one on which we
dwell If the earth were substituted in
her place il would look Just about the
same as she looks She is 200 miles
in diameter. and the earth is a little !
over 1900. But she is 26,00O,O00 miles
nearer the sun. and gets twice as much
light as we get That means twice as
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13
AOiator Drops
German Officer Out of
Plane In French Lines

Havre. France. May IA young British
aviator was recently decorated in front OF
the troops for a flight accomplished in com
pany with a German officer.
The aviator had been obliged to descend
within the German lines. and was made a
prisoner by a German officer into whose
hands he had fallen. The latter conceived
the idea of making his prisoner take him
in his airplane for flight above the allied
lines in order to make observations. which
would not be disturbed by snti-aircraft fire.
as the enemy would be mialed by the cock
ade on the biplane
The German officer reinforced his order
with revolver. and the aviator accordingly
resumed his seat in the machine and
strapped himself in securely
The German officer. with his pistol IN his
hand. took the observers seat. and the
couple then flew towards the allied lines
the aviator making a number Of evolutions
to the right and left, according to the or
ders Of the German. Having seen sufficient
the officer Of the kaiser ordered the avia-
tor to turn his machine and in order to do
so the airplane mounted higher. and sud
denly turned over in an admirable loop.
On righting himself the pilot found that
he was alone. the German officer having
for once been insufficiently strapped in.
The aviator descended as quickly as posi-
bic into the British lines. where he received
a welcome which took the form Of decors-
ton
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13

,.,+io, of less than half mile, or saw
80, 9oOO TO 25OO feet The balloon on
risiIs- rapfdly enters the lower surface
Of the cloud and in a lew minutes
energies from the upper surface into an
onriaI world Of sunshine. Yet above
-, snnear another, less compact Iayer
~ @strato-cumulus, like a roof with
cIoudv rafters, and this may or may
not be reached, according 10 the eleva-
lion which the ballOOnist undertakes
There may be a space of air a mile
or more in thickness between the lower
clouds and the upper ones. If the bal
Ioon ascends through the second roof
A third may come into view above. COM
Dosed of alto-stra tus, which ordinarily
F1oats at an elevation of three and a
boIr miles Even this may be meme
rated nv a very bold adventurer in the
slv and then 1t would be possible for
a fourth cloud-rOof TO be seen above.
AT an elevation from six to ten miles
from the earth, consisting Of the light
est and most beautiful of all clouds, the
These. disposed in flaky masses. or
long, curling filaments, often CLEAN
uyitb the colors OF a surface of mother
can rise to the region where the high
est cirri are formed.
OF course, the succession Of cIouds
lust described would not be likely to
be encountered on any particular bal
loon trip, and vet it night be- But n
only two OF three layers of cloud are
nenetrated the ordinary sensation Of
rising through an aerial world divided
into successive stories is experienced.
The highest clouds do not form vast
unbroken layers, like some Of those
nearer the earth. There is no other kind
Of cloud so imposing as the cumulo-
nimbus.
II piles itself up in vast mountain
like masses, with snowy cliffs, preci
pices and projecting bluffs and brows
and seems. when viewed from the
ground, cleaning in the sunshine. to
penetrate the highest heavens. Its ma
iestlc peaks do, sometimes, attain >
height of from six to eight miles. hut
its bases can be reached by balloon.
though the balloonist would avoid its
for II is the Typical
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13

cal park. has discovered new evidence
that flight began by sailing down from
an elevation and not by jumping up
from a lower level to reach something
abive. He has found that in several
species of birds, the hite-winged dove.
for instance, the newly Matched young
possess rows of sprouting quilts on the
outer legs, running from below the knee
nearly to the tail If these were devel-
oped they would form Winglets, and
would aid the spread tail in supporting
the body after it was launched i'm the
air. acting somewhat like airplanes.
But these rudimental winglets do not
develop in the modern bird. They are
simply relics OF a former state of
things, anatomical memories, so TO
speak perpetuating themselves in the
embryo, but disappearing in the adult
because their usefulness has passed
A guess is even made at the length
OF time that has elapsed since the first
birds were developed out of reptiles by
acquiring feathers on the fore and hind
limbs, which enabled them to glide
easily TO the ground from perches in the
trees, like the flying lemurs, or the fly
ing squirrels of our time. 1t was, Mr..
Beebe thinks, something like seven mil
lion years ago. in the early Jurassic
age, that this interesting advanos in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13

much heat, too. and the summer tenn
perature on Venus-unless her atmOs-
phere is different from Ours-must be
terrific.
But an atmosphere by variations in
density and composition, can work
magic in such things. as is shown by
the marvellously different state Of at
fairs that prevailed on this globe in
the CarbaniferoUs Age. and when tenn
perate and perhaps even tropical
climates existed around the polar cir
cles.
As we see her now, Venus is about
$4,000. 900 miles away, but on the Sd
Of July will be only about 100000
miles from the earth At that time, If
she did not turn her back to us, she
would appear nearly 90 times as large
and bright as she does at present, and,
with powerful telescopes, we might
be able to discover signs of her inhab
itants, IL she has any.
But. unluckily, when she is between
the sun and the earth that side OF her
which is presented to Us is in total
darkness. The nearer she gets the
closer the veil is drawn over her face,
and it Is shut completely at the mo-
ment of nearest approach.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13

animal iocomotion occurred. The
earliest bird like creature known is the
archaeopteryx, a feather limbed rep
tile.
The order of development seems TO
have been from sailing, or gliding.
flight to true wing flight, and this in
vOlved the gradual disuse and dlsap-
pearance of the hinder wings, or pei
vic wings. and the growth and i'm
provement of the fore wings, until thew
became the only ones. The superiority
OF the fore wings consisted in the fact
that they could be used as active aids
in sustaining the body in the air by
Tapping. while the hind wings were
available only as gliders, and they be-
came unnecessary after the fuller de-
of the tail.
As to the origin OF feathers, they.
too. were not created as entirely new
but were evidently developed
by gradual evolution. under the spur Of
use and necessity. from the scales of the
reptile. Back of the archaeopteryx was
Mr.. Beebe believes. an earlier type of
flying reptile, which he calls the
or four winged flyer. This
has vanished as an existing type. but
the image of it reappears, like a fitting
vision OF the far past. in the rudimen-
tary structure OF the young squad.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13
High Among the Clouds

from an almost level plai nOf clouds.
which stretched thousands Of feet be-
low the balloon and extended to the
horizon on all sides
The resemblance to a real landscape,
variegated with hills and mountains
and covered with eternal snow. Is
heightened when a thunderstorm hap
pens to be raging IN the clouds beneath
the aeronauts feet. The lightning
flashes vividly from peak to peak and
across the chasms Of air the thunder
cracks sharply in the startled ears.
Occasionally a descent has to be made
through such a curtain of cloud. and il
is not without its special danger, both
from electric discharges and from the
effects of the moisture. and of the sud-
den cooling on thebuoyancy Of the
balloon.
When the lower world is cut off by
clouds the aeronaUt of course. can
only estimate his position, and having
no landmarks to go by, and no certain
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13
BY Garrett P.
Serviss.

means of measuring his speed or the di-
rection of his flight, he is in the truest
sense lost in the midst of the sky. At
night he may get his general direction
from the stars, but any precise obser-
walton is impossible.
The effect of swiftly dropping
through the lower side of a layer Of
clouds. and seeing the earth beneath
apparently in the act Of bounding up
10 meet the descending balloon. is de
scribed by those who have experienced
II as startling in the highest degree.
The balloonist has opportunities for
cloud study of the most excellent kind.
He sees them from new point OF view.
and can observe many peculiarities not
visible from the ground. The great diff
ferences in the elevations Of clouds Of
various kinds are brought clearly to his
attention.
An ordinary stratus cloud. covering
the whole heavens as seen from fixed
point on the earth. has usually an Gle
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13

EOPLE who climb lofty mountains
- often get wonderful views OF
4 cloudland, but the best views of
that kind are obtained from balloons
An example OF the spectacle that is
sometimes spread beneath the eyes OF
an aeronaut is shown in the accompa-
nyinE photograph. The sense Of lone
illness and Of being lost in space almost
overwhelms the mind when the sight
Of the solid world below lie completely
cut off by an ocean of boiling clouds.
Sometimes the upper surface OF a
vast curtain OF clouds which entirely
cOnceals the earth Is cast up into i'm
menSe mountainous masses, as II &c
were a world OF snow. I have seen a
photograph OF SUCH a scene made from
balloon. which showed a huge white
rOund-tOpped mass. form not unlike
the mighty dome Of Chimborazo rising
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13

While looking at her as she glows
in the sunset sky it is interesting to
recall a peculiar predicament into
which she seems to have fallen. The
sun has so far mastered her with his
tidal attraction that she has almost
ceased 70 rotate on her axis. She turns
Just fast enough to keep one side OF
her globe always toward the sun.
She knows neither sunrise nor SUM
set: she has a night side and a day
side, that is all If the conditions OF
her surface and her atmosphere are
such that life can exist both In her
perpetual daylight and her perpetual
night, then half Of her inhabitants see
only the sun in the sky while the other
half see only the stars.
But the latter see the earth among
the stars, at the time OF the nearest
approach Of the two planets, shining in
mid-heaven with amazing splendor, in
comparably more brilliant than any
planet ever appears to us. If they ara
superstitious, they probably worship
the earth. with its moon cir5iing It
like an acolyte, but if they have tele-
scopes they make maps of II and spec
ulate about its inhabitants
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13
BY GARRETT p. sEBvIss.

n BRHAPs the most wonderful story
- that the geological strata have
\ yielded concerning the Develop
ment Of life on this globe is that of
the emergence of the line Of the birds
from that OF the reptiles The water
was. apparently. the first home OF ami
mails, the land was the second, and
finally came the atmosphere. To acquire
the kingdom OF the air the power Of
flight was necessary. Either the birds
had to be created as an entirely new
form of animal OF they had to be de-
vsloped out OF a preexisting form. The
latter method was adopted. and the
anatomy OF the reptiles lent itself TO
the change.
But by what steps was flight ac-
quired? There are two principal the
cries: one. that flight was brought
about by jumping down; the other. that
it came through jumping up. The first
suggestion seems the more reasonable
and probable, besides being in accord
with the habits of certain tree climb
ing animals Of today. which have de-
veloped partial powers of flight, such
as soaring and gliding.
Mr.. Beebe, OF the New York zoologi-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13
Every Woman Should Read This Article.
The Girl Who Drinks
A Habit Easily Avoided, Yet One That Invariably Leads
To Disgrace.


w rr. a 5'" i65is tale s'" @6ias
ended for want Of a nail
the shoe was lost, for want of
shoe the horse was lost. for want Of
horse the rider was lost" and the
philosophy of that applies all through
life to every first little false step.
however trifling.
So it is with the subject I am con-
sidering today subject suggested by
a very interesting letter given here in
part:
81 am an interested third party IN
n discussion going on between two
very dear friends of mine. A. who is
90. and B, who is IS both went to
house party where they served wine
and cocktails. 4 refused absolutely
70 touch a drop while 3 at FIRST re
fused but after much persuasion drank
one glass of wine and one cock
tail
when they met the next day, A
upbraided B for drinking. while de
Tended herself by saying that she only
did ii for fear Of offending her hos
tess and OF making herself conspiCu-
Gus as A did, for A was the only one
OF all present who refused further
went on to say that she would never
but seeing that they were all friends
at a friends home she saw no harm
IN it. A, however, insisted that 3 had
done an unwise thing and would not
be convinced otherwise.
"The next day B, who is a charm
ing girl and liked by everybody, came
to me and asked my advice. She has
been invited to a birthday party by
one OF the girls present that day and
as the party is in two weeks she is
at a loss to know what to do. She is
afraid that should she refuse to touch
ANYTHING they may serve. her future
hostess may feel offended at her re-
fusal in her home, whereas she &C
epted in the other girls home. She
confided to me that that was the first
time she had ever tasted wine and
that she hated the taste Of it,
"a" took the sane and dignified
stand and I applauded her bravery
The girl who does not yield to per
suasionH is a splendid woman
There is nothing particularly de-
grading in drinking one glass Of wine
and one cocktail in a private home
but il is the first step toward a very
dangerous situation. Since "B" drank
at the home Of a friend she is likely
seriously TO offend another hostess by
Insisting on taking a temperance at
titude at a party in her home. But she
had better risk that offeuse-instead !
of her own future
SuDopse she takes step number
two. here is a little picture-not at |
all exaggerated of the other steps |
that must follow
In order to avoid hurting the feel |
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13

/ ings Of other good friends. she must
take a drink or two at their house
parties, and then one of the group
entertains in a restaurant and she is
told that she certainly is not "a good
fellow unless she joins in and has a
little glass there
Then the men who are in the habit
of seeing her drink when she is one OF
a group. insist that il is a personal
affrOnt if she refuses to trust them
enough to take drink when out alone
with them and pretty soon B" 1inds
herself expected TO do little drink
ing" whenever she goes out for a So
cial evening And each step rs sucn 4
tiny one-and follows so inevitably on
the one before
The least that can happen Is that
she is judged by people who see her
taking liquor in public places to be
a rather rowdy and ordinary young
woman.
But a far greater danger waits her
than unfavOrablc public opinio-she is
ala too certain Ito learn to like liquor.
And although the word drunkenness -
hideOusly abhorrent and seems very
very far away from the girl who takes
a drink or two in a friend home
drunkenness lies ahead.
If a girl has made the blunder %
taking a drink or two in the home
Of one friend she can easily rectify
IL. At the next party to which she
goes she can quietly say: II made a
mistake by taking anything to drink
to drink tonight for T am determined
not to and an argument won't make
any Of us happier. I Just don't like
HouOr-that's all"
Don't Give In to II.
No preaching. no "holier than thou"
attitude Is necessarily a definite
stand on a subject on the ground that
IL is a matter of personal taste.
No hostess insists on your eating
lobster If il is repellant to you. No
hostess has a right TO force her guests
to drink If they quietly remark that
they don't like liquor.
For any is or 20 year old girl to form
the drink habit is hideously and
criminally dangerous.
Feminine vanity ought to lend itself
to the natural stand of dignity. Tine
woman who drinks generally looks
Iowsy and heavy-eyed. and her men,
tai state is reflected in her appear
ance.
Mental inefficicucy. moral laxity on
the enthical side-aud on the social
side bad reputation. lOud-voiced
rowdiness. and coarsened appearance!
What girl wants TO yield to the plea
to be a good fellow" and take a drink
or two when the price she will have
to pay is so clearly. inevitably indi-
catede
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13

Here is a
drawing of
the probable
appearance
Of the first
flying
creature.
The form is
arrived at by
scientific
deduction
and study
of the birds
of today.