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The sun., 1916-12-24

Every woman likes to be TOLD she Is
loved. whether she balances trays In
a dairy lunch or tickles the carburetcr
Of n cabriolet. This does not mean
you are to tell the brunette princess
who waits at the table that you are
wild over her on sight, unless you are
willing to chance a pot OF Boston
baked beans being hung on your head.
Nor II the woman higher up en-
tirely vulnerable. Such fast work Is
liable to cause her to ring for the
butler and have you bounced the en-
tire length Of the white marble steps.
We are sceptics at heart In these days
of social gangsters and tango trim
mers.
The hint to pick out the feature OF
which n woman 10 vain and concen-
trate the fire Of fiattery on It Ia little
short OF a stroke Of genius. II this
was our Romeo's plan of procedure
small wonder he was n riot.
II a girl has a nose so turned sky
ward that she Is in danger Of drown.
ing every time she goes out in the
rain 1t is suicide to tell her It looks &c
YOU like a perfect Grecian profile
She will know you are lying like a
soldier and a gentleman. because she
has spent hours in front OF the mirror
hating that particular nose. Should
she wear a size 7 glove and you sent
her A. for her birthday she will BIZ
furious. To her you will either be q
dolt or an idiot. But II she pushes hei
tiny feet into a 4 and YOU send her {
3 she will be your pullet for life.
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Tillie would beg him to take them.

Tell them you love them as 500
{ mattresses and to women who drive
their W cars. They are all alike.
Pick out the feature Of which q
woman il vain. and concentrate your
tire on that feature.
Your strongest card will be what I
call the old bull Love nowadays Is
a thing Of market quotations and cash
values.
1.-THE penniiess fellow plays his
ukelele serenade beneath miladi's win
dow In vain-the Jingle Of dollars Is
the music that wins her heart.
Keep them In a good humor. II Ia
easy to do that. I do It by sending
out circular letters. ~delicately per-
fumed. to make them feel good toward
me. Send one kind to certain types
and another kind to others"
There II IL In a thimble. Almost
any man ought to be able to qualify
as a random Romeo II an easy pro-
low. Most Of us have been led to be.
lieve the game Of hearts Is intricate
Oliver makes II so simple-for ths
men-that a child could play It and
come out winner.
Take. for example. that first clause
about dressing well, and the tip on the
$ll suit OF clothes. OF course, these
are for the out Of town trade. Il
Oliver can 60 out into the highway
and byways OF the great and gloriou!
city of New York and page himself {
girl so unsophisticated as to fall FOL
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10 the vast amusement of the public.
He never dreamed 1t vas 80 muShy
until he read II in the daily papers,
whore It Is mentioned as Exhibit \.
Did he really let loose that Baby
Doll and that Honey Bug" chatter?
Maybe there was paresis In his family
away back. Or ought he go and do "A
dive from the nearest dock?
Well, lever again. After this the
telephone. You can't exhibit telephone
conversations in court.
Which is why our cautious bache-
The sun., 1916-12-24

The fg tree plays a very importaut
part in the myths OF many ancient ma
lions. When Ulysses was sucked In b.
the whirlpool of C~harybdis he graspsd
the limb OF a wild ng tree that over
hung the pool. In legend tho Holy
Family rested under a fig tree on their
journey to Egypt. The Ruthless DR.
tree Of Jesus Is one Of tho important
elements In that parable.
Even the Egyptians had q legend
that Isis recovered all Of Osiris except
one part. and that was replaced by q
bit of fig wood. One OF the wall paint
ings at Thebes shows the souls Of tho
departed p%artakins of the fruit of q
tiE tree In Paradise. The Romans held
that a fig tree sheltered Romulus and
Remus. The Ficus religiosa or re-
ligious fig tree OF India Is sacred, and
none Is allowed to fell it. 1t IL con-
suited ms an oracle, and It Is believed
that when Brahma assumed human
form a blossom of the fg tree was
dropped Nom heaven to tempt him.
The Idea OF the tree OF the knowl-
edge of good and evil. or wisdom tree,
as 1t has been called, has been termed
a moon myth by some scholars. They
assert that the moon is most often
pictured on earth as a tree. Tho
Bahylonians speak of a tree Eridu at
the mouth Of the Euphrates which
spoke TO Its worshippers. According
to the Scandinavian mythology the
great ash tree Ygdrasil runs down
10 the well Of wisdom and knowledge.
on this wisdom tree the pillar OF the
new moon, old Odin. chief god of the
Scandinavians, hung head downward
TO extract the words Of wisdom.
Jupiter had his speaking oak" 1t
Is n traditional seat of knowledge, and
Is referred TO in the story OF Peter,
who lost his memory during the three
days of the moons darkness, but when
the cock crew he remembered his Lord.
In India the bo-tree Of knowledge
was the shelter OF Buddha for twenty
eight days (the length of the lunar
month"; until he received his illumina-
ton of wisdom, The sacred oaks Of
Dodona In Greece were among the
very earliest OF Greek shriues, being
hung with bells whose tinkllng oraclss
were interpreted by the priests.
The Yule log Is of course a retio OF
the Scandinavian worship OF the yacrsd
ash tree, and wa not at all Christian
In origin. having heen known to he
Norsemen long before their CONVEX
sion 10 Christianity.
II If therefore plain that the tree
Of knowledge Of good and evil has
many parallels In the faiths of all an
cient nations, and that it was an error
ever to think that II could have been
en- apple tree or that the fruit of the
temptation va an apple.
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Letters were one Of divers trump
cards. according to his WI admis-
sion. When he had composed what
he thought was a knockout IN mis-
sives he had the love classic printed
in circular form and sent Out broad
cast among his victims. 1t simplihed
matters a lot. Instead Of getting
brain flag over penning a hundred or
moro he put all his. thought in one
composition and let the mimeograph
do the rest.
This with the aid Of a few drops OF
perfume turned the trick. Each and
every recipient felt that she was the
one and only inspiration for the out
burst OF affection. She was divers
particular little oyster and she loved II.
The Great Lover certainly took his
freedom in his hands when he wrote
letters. He must have seen what hap
pens to reckless young men who put
their thoughts down with pen and ink
and then have them read out in court
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deuodsd tiat playing post Office in the
pof9oe WITH the daughter Of the most
peomtnent butcher IN Gloversville was
beneath hA talents. It was very
pleasurable TO escort . young lady to
church sociables evenings and steal a
ID IA the shadow Of the veranda
w0sA he said good night. but 1t did
not 0et the bank balance forward 80
fnuc6 - . oentavo.
Why not make such a delightful
oocuDatou profitable as we'll as pleas
uable? Why not combine love and
work-br1ng down q couple OF birds
with one stone, 90 to speak?
Now It 10 easy to fathom why a
brtse4 young fellow like Oliver. with
extreme ideas on the love stuff and a
strong aversion for dragging down
dollars in the usual trite ways travelled
by toll, should fnd the climate Of
Gloversville entirely unsuited to his
style Of beauty. Talk about silly con-
ventions! Why. the rubes in that
town still believed that an Engage
ment wal as good as a marriage. and
h a when a man proposed to a girl
IL was all over but selecting what in
stalment firm they could hook for the
furniture. So Oliver shook the dust
The sun., 1916-12-24
TILE TALES OF PEOPLE AND THINGS
LTHoUGH all communication is

A LTHOUGH all communication IN
~ officially at an end between
Germany and the Allies, the
actual amount of correspondence be-
- tween the belligerent countries is
enormous.
In the two years ended September
!, 1916. exactly 1922 .i04 pieces OF
mail matter passed between Germany
n her enemies. This IL nearly two
thirds the amount Of mail matter
which was sent out Of the United
States In all the foreign mails during
the year ended last June.
All Of this vast correspondence con-
sists Of letters. packages and money
orders received from and sent to war
prisoners. According to the official re-
port Of the International Postal Union.
. special war prisoners post bureau
at Bern. Switzerland. consisting OF
twenty postal officers and ia m
ployees. has handled all the corre-
b Oaadsnos between German prisoners
n vtNnoe and Great Britain and
French and British prisoners In Ger
many.
The mall consisted Of l6l.b+7,9s let
tcu. s.Ss3.s7S letter packets. 80. 70S, 449
parcels post packages and 4,ss2. $50
moasV orders for amounts totallins
svUoamAtsly e~1S.7ts.oeo. Germany
- ysaa1s sEehaaOpl about The ams
anDss ag1sassa vueasb - xs3Aisa
The sun., 1916-12-24
in the Eden Story?
1t Was a Translator's Mistake and
the Fruit That Adam Ate Was
Perhaps the Cassia

the specific fruit. apple. II Is further
admitted by scholars who hold that the
Paradise OF the Bible. which is also
described upon clay tablets of Baby
lonian literature. was located near the
Euphrates and the Tigris, or in a tropi-
cal country. where no apples could
possibly grow. so that the fruit OF this
tree could not have been an apple.
In a tablet lately translated, which
originated In Nippur and In now in the
Museum Of the University OF Pennsyl-
vania In Philadelphia. the fruit Is de-
scribed as the fruit of the cassia plant,
according to DIR. l.andon's translation.
This Is possible, for that plant Is well
known In the region.
But the question Of how the apple
came Into the story is still unanswered,
and no tablet will answer it. for none
could mention a fruit unknown to the
R~nbylonians. not growing In their
country.
We have to go far afleld to ascertain
the origin Of the error. for the use of
the word apple Is IN error. 1t came
about from the confusion Of two words
In the Latin. "Fructum' means fruit
and so does "pomum." But ''pomum"
also means apple, and some ancient
scno'ar n"eo WIN La''h words wrote
pomum instead OF 'irnctum' IN
.Ians'atine 'h's passage ana IL was IN
terpre'eo az Hpe''hc' hahnelS' apple IN
s'eao OF seher"' tha' is Iruit'
mere is however another reason
ior ,h's confusion ana 'he persistence
ol 'he rue" IL Stow" IN many OF the
paIht.hes py the o'n masters who
sometimes deplet a tree laden with
The sun., 1916-12-24

Of Main street from his butchers and
adventured forth to become q soldier
OF fortune In the game Of hearts.
The first thing Oliver did when ne
struck the heart and dollar trail was
to evolve a system. He played this
system all the way from London, Eng
land. to Lackawaxen, Pa. which is
some jump. and the way he cleaned up
made II look as II the heart record Of
Nat Goodwin and the dollar record Of
the hacker of q war bride were going
to be a pushover. Whenever he left
a town you could bank on II he left
behind at least one forlorn maiden
clutching dead hope In n hand and
an empty pocketbook In the other.
Oliver could scent a feminine bank
book, no matter where in the house Il
was hidden. The second time he sat
on the back stoop with her. Title the
cook. who spent three years saving
$500. would sneak into the house, un-
sew the bills from the lining of her
brown alpaca. and with tears in her
eye beg Oliver to take them and buy
himself a set Of silk shirts.
And now for the Osborne secret Of
success with women and finance.
stand back, men! Don't crowd! That
Is what Oliver did and Zee where he
il now. Have . little patience and fol.
low the system and your reward will
be hearts and diamonds. Here II IL as
given by the Great Lover himself:
Dress well. for with women II IL
the clothes that make the man. They
accept him at his face value.
AN I'll suit Of clothes. Q pair Of
nose glasses, yellow gloves, gray spats.
a stick and q flower in his buttonhole
will make a barber or q waiter look
like a millionaire. II he can live up
to his chrysanthemum he has the bat
Flo hale ~o0
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Tors and the advocates Of safety In the
marriage mart seldom II eve COMMA
themselves or paper. When they -
the r. o. at the bottom Of the pagO q:
quests that the evidence Be de0erovo0
az soon as read. They want no 6acoe
fire. What has become Of the ID
fashioned girl who used to tie . blue
ribbon around her love letters ana
scatter them with rose leavesf
So we see after all there are . great
many faws in the o. Osborne rules t.
roping women. There II no denying
the fact that the Oloversvills Romeo
was . huge success-up to the time he
became a guest in the Tombs. Since
his arrival in our city women have
been steaming in from all parts oe this
fair country to claim him a. erstwhile
sweetheart, sutton or husband.
The sun., 1916-12-24

! know a girl who only the other
evening relegated a sheaf Of orchids
10 the ice box In order TO wear a knot
Of ~rosebuds, and she Is mighty fond OF
orchids, too. The orchids represented
the price Of a new winter coat which
she needed very much--the roses her
happiness. which was beyond price.
Unfortunately for the sex there are
a few who would sell their
heritage for "A season ticket to the
Bright Lights, Their idea OF "A para
disc II a limousine with n liver.ed
chauffeur and a charge account at
Tifany's. Give them their choice be-
tween a clean. straight Young man
with upright morals and n future
and n spawned specimen with
warped habits and a fortune and
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benighted Romeo would get would be
Bellevue. However. IL he was the
right chap. the one who caused her
heart TO do a complete flop every
time he how in sight. and II he sug-
gested going around the corner to the
picture show because they have a
pianist there who is a wizard on the
keys she would excuse herself and
phone as follows:
rs this Mr.. Bank Notes? This Is
Helen speaking. Aw'fy sorry. but I
can't 20 to the opera tonight. Some
other time perhaps. Goo-by."
That Is II she was the right sort Of
girl she would.
There Is a difference between pleas
ure and happiness. The Jingle OF
gold is pleasure to the ear but the
voice of the best beloved Is music to
the soul. II you know a girl or a
woman who will not stand the acid
test. who even though she loves you
cancels your moonlight excursion up
the Hudson for a party on the
P~roudpurse yacht. check her quick.
She viii not understand the moon
Light II she goes. and every time she
looks at n Palisades she will be
sorry because she hasn't a castle on
every crag.
The sun., 1916-12-24

still be used and put over. 1t scarcely
seems possible in these days Of SUI
frage and common sense heels. We
accept this Observation-Disclosures
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in the movies.
where the hero meets the One Best Bet
and they saze into each others eyes for
full fifteen feet Of "hllum'' without
fiinchins. OF our no n takes any
stock in the GER 1t Is like the pink
icing on Christmas cookies-nothing
to II, but II looks good.
The sun., 1916-12-24
By JANE DIXON.

AFT you are going to play a game
-. . system"
80 says that most spectacu.
~ and successful Of our contemporary
psmeos Oliver Osborne. he who as
~ ws Charles II. Wax up in the
~al town Of Gloversville, N. r.. and
vho has marked his trail across the
csatnent with fragments Of shattered
hafts.
- matter whether your game IL
,dDsr, pinochle. parchesi or the manip-
nation Of the delicate bit Of human
oeuan,sm loGted to the front Of the
~ shoulder blade, you can never
ca in without a system.
oxver Osborne 10 for the nonce a
susgt ct that unpopular hosiery abut-
TIM Lafayette street. the Tombs. He
would probably not be there yet II he
had worked along easy without fore
i'm his system. His game was women.
ne played with marked cards, jokers
up his sleeves, extra Q under the
tsA1e and all the rest Of the tricks
known to the sharks. and mostly he
won hands down.
Il all the women VINO have fallen
fr divers system were herded to.
esther the net result would look like
Q combination Of a s%uffragist conven-
IL. the waiting room of q servants
assignment agency and the stage en-
trance Of the Winter Garden the
mssndng after Lee Shubert has sent
oue Q hurry call for chorus queens.
Oh, Oliver was the Great Lover. all
rohA
lAsiy in lie Oliver looked over the
1anD9 supply In his homo town and
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Oliver in one of h many lurid silk
shirts OF their buying and other toys
IN keeping receives them all p%atroniz-
ingly. with the tinge Of pity they de-
serve. He feels sorry for them. poor
things. They fell for the system and
the system got them.
But before using the system. my
good menfolk. don't overlook one thing.
1t got Oliver too The best system In
the game of hearts Is either to play
solitaire or to pick out a partner and
make It a life partnership. Ask Oliver.
The sun., 1916-12-24

Love nowadays is a thing Of mar
ket quotations and cash values"
Oh. oliver, how can you! We are
not all mercenary. A few Of us there
are who prefer a dinner down In
some coy little italian table d'hote
with the red ink and the man who
works to a dinner in the Crystal Room
with vintage wine and the man who
wastes. Funny thing, the food really
tastes better, though there il a DIFF
ference Of $3.50 between the two.
The sun., 1916-12-24

prisoners in Germany Jared better In
the number OF parcels they received
than did the German prisoners In the
countries Of the Allies. for 20. 1881 40
packages were sem to Germany. while
only 3,437,490 went to France. 1926 to
Great Britain, 2,96s to Japan and 446
Ia Italy.
The proportion of mall from sympa-
thizing friends at home to prisoners In
foreign lands Is just double that from
the prisoners to their friends.
The sun., 1916-12-24

There is ar answer. however. and
that n very simple one, which will
probably satisfy this inquirer and
many others who might ask the same
question.
1t Is true that in the Hebrew the
words are "Etz Peri" the fruit Of the
tree. and the Greek and Latin versions
so translate them. The Vulgate uses
the word "fructum" for fruit. and this
could not in any way be mistaken for
The sun., 1916-12-24
ere Are Some Flaws After All in His Game Of He;
Make 1t Useless as a Model for Random Romeos

watch the clean. straight. young man
get the high sign to hurry UP and
choose his exit.
As for playing ukeleles under
miladi's window, any sensible girl
would pull down the blind and hide
her head under the pillows Mt such
madness. She knows the neighbors
would be on the wire sending out the
8 o s sign to the nearest police sta
ton for an oficer to come and round
up the nut" and the best the poor
The sun., 1916-12-24

A CORRESPONDENT wrote to
~ THE Sun lately asking how the
apple came 10 be named as the
fruit OF the temptation in the Garden
Of Eden when the original Hebrew text
and all Of the TRANSACTIONS speak only Of
the fruit Of the tree of the knowledge
OF good and evil. II seemed that none
OF the Biblical authorities had offered
any answer 80 far as he was able TO
learn.
The sun., 1916-12-24
INToN WATERS of Georgia
who returned recently on the

who returned recently on the
Trinidad liner Maraval. report
ed that he had found aluminium de-
posits In Datch Guiana. He made q
ten months prospecting trip far up the
great rivers OF Guiana looking for pay
dirt.
"As the aluminium beds OF Tennes-
see, Georgia and Arkansas show signs
Of giving out" said he. I'VE have
got 70 hunt up new deposits. I made
a prospecting trip Of 200 miles up the
surinam River, after getting . pro-
visIonal concession from the Dutch
authorities.
Our party found bauxits and other
mineral deposits from which alumni
mum ~ b EXTRACTED. Theos nsw
Asa1s pav - WV sseh seA nv msaa
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Ing in the munitions factories. They
are making big wages and. for the
first time you might say, they have
more money than they know what to
do with. Instead Of laying II by for a
rainy day they are INDUCING their
fancy for all sorts OF frills and fur
bellows.
"They are even buying furs. Scotch
ONE have seldom worn furs. as the
weather Ia not cold enough. But now
adays the munition prosperity has
caused fur boas and nuns to bloom
In all directions. And the way they
buy sweets Ia a caution. Sugar Is al
most like gold In Scotland, but the
lassies always have the money TO buy
candles these days"
THE mackerel fishermen sailing
out Of Gloucester have had n
very profitable season. A feet
of twenty-three schoOners took 1885,
ooo barrels OF mackerel. valued at
3777.250. A record catch for an Amer
lean schooner and the biggest Of the
year was that Of the Arthur James,
which made 367.250. each member OF
the crew getting S1.b27.
Next in line were the Monarch. $5b.-
900: Marguerite Haskins. 5000. and
Lottie q. Merchant 362.600. The
smallest catch NJ that Of the vsAa
y. 4aaKowu WersA oa<ooA
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a good deal to those interested in the
aluminium market just now with the
American deposits on the down grade.
Undoubtedly the Dutch authorities
will give us a concession to develop
the new fields"
The sun., 1916-12-24

A MONG the many window signs
~ composed Of letters separately
cemented 10 the glass you fnd
now and then n from which a letter
has dropped away. In some cases
this may not make so much matter.
as was shown. for example. In a sign
that had originally been Meat Mar
ket."
From this sign the first letter M had
dropped of, leaving II 10 to read,
Eat Market" Still fairly significant.
COTCH girls are buying frilly
things" remarked Capt. David
". Bone, skipper Of the An
Choir Line steamer Camsronia, from
Glasgow. ION bur last voyage home
we were laid up for two weeks over
hauling and I had q chance to notice
that the proverbially careful Scotch
lsssie is spending money like tho pro-
verbal Jack ashore.
This surprising condition u one Of
the results a the great war. Many
q ~ Siris 10 osstsA sttss ars work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-29
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA NEWS
Diplomas For Graduates of
Teacher Training Class

Enola, Pa, June 29. Commence
ment exercises of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church teacher training class
will be held tomorrow evening. The
program will include: Music; invoca-
ton by the Rev. F. Grant Sleep, pas
tor; essay, Miss Beulah Gertrude
Parks; address, j. L. Young, of Me-
chanicsburg, president of the Cumber-
land County Sabbath School Associa-
ton: vocal duet, Grace Stun and
Currance Eichel; essay, Miss Sara
Lackey; recitation, Maude Beshore;
address. the Rev. DIR. A. S. Fasick. dis
trict superintendent of the Harrisburg
district of the Methodist Church; in
strumental duet, Misses Htlda May
Wagner and Esther Irene Reigel;
presentation of diplomas, A. B. Har-
nish, of Mechanicsburg, county super
intendent of teacher training; response
TO the presentation of diplomas, ]. H.
Eichel; class song, composed by Mrs.
w. l.. Troup. Glass roll: ]. II. Eichel,
president; Beulah G. Parks, secretary
and treasurer; Helen A. Kuntzleman,
Hilda May Wagner, Hazel G. Stun,
Currance e. Eichel, Esther l. Reigle,
Mrs. w. H. Beshore, Maude R. Be-
shore, Sara Lackey and Mrs. w. l..
Troup; teacher, Miss L. Mae Bitner.
The teacher training alumni will
tender a banquet to the class in the
festival room of the First United
Brethren Church after the exercises.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-29
PENNsY DECLARES DIVIDEND

Directors of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road yesterday declared the usual
quarterly dividend of 11s per cent.
payable August 81. Directors of the
Pennsylvania Company declared a
semiannual dividend of per cent.
as compared with dividend of per
cent. declared this time last year. In
1915 a total of 6 per cent. was paid,
in 1914 a total of 4 per cent. was paid
and prior to that time, for a number
of years, 7 per cent. was paid, per
cont. being declared in December and
per cent. in June. BY their action
yesterday the directors have appar-
emily placed the stock upon an 8 per
cent. basis and as all of the PennsyI-
vania Company stock is owned by the
Pennsylvania Railroad the latter COM
pany will receive in dividends from
this source $6,40O,000 for the current
year as against $4,S00,000 in 1915.