The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-05-03

UE&flN in protecting the wearera against attack, the gas mask has at
EVWWN best a hobgobhn appearance that reminds on of the early prac-
NGNN2N dce of savages who painted their faces to brighten the enemy
0N Old Japanese armor as often designed with the anne idea,
although it is hard tic believe that the wearers did not soon find out tina. the
enemy refused to be scared. No such hope, of course, al entertained by
hobgobun. The picture shows various masks Seveonsd e dnrus t pou wr h ue
by the Allies and the Germans; an the latest specimens, made in America
and only just completed at the time Of the armistce, are nOt much pretier
Whoever collects postage stamps will want a specimen O. the homemade
one-cent stamps issued during the wal by the postmaster of the island of
Curacao, a West Indian possession of Holland. Last summer the postmaster
got nut of the regular onecents stamps. and could get n % more,o owing ito war
conditions So he had some made; a bufcolored stamp marked Curacao
1 cent" with the postmasters abbreviated signature. Fity-one thousand
werep put in circulation, and, a s few persons who received them had any
unusual interest n a postage stamp they are already becoming rare. Stamp
oonec'ors " IS Sa"o' are oeng ahowed TO ~ tMm' ncanceed, for twenty
cents each. One wonders whether a thrifty government has gone into the
business OF selling stamps at a advanced price. or whether it allows the
.oeai Smas 3" Oy them hmSela IN sell them again as a private ven
In the East End of London the Old VIC" a huge theatre with low nrtces
for seats. has invited it's patrons to select a series of shakesperean plays tic
be acted during an approaching Shakespeare birthday FESTIVAL and seven
plays will be acted in the order o. indicated popularity: Hamlet" Julius
Caesar" AS You Like It." THE Tempest" Twelfth Night" THE Tanning
of the shrew." and The Merchant of Venice" Here. at any rate, is an audi
ece for Shakespeare, not apparently, because of the birthday festival, but
because this particular theatre makes rather a peciahy of giving the plays
OF INT great dramatst n its audiences like them. One wonders if a SINH
lr thing would not happen in many other places. provided the theatre that
pesan We experiment conunued II enough to accustomit its patrons to
The compulsory physical examination method that is being employed in
brings nm ouar,v the nuostan o. 20 uhaa 49, M INC maue a.. an
the purpose of instrucdng children along intellectual lines and teaching them
,mentaton. Heretofore the answer to sue q ouestion Nu wo ma nae eAp pen
thought obvious Today, however, it would appear by no means to be o.
One is reminded, by the publication of a stable volume o the subject
of punctuation, of the way in which Lord Timothy Dexter, author of the
Pickle for the Knowing Ones" managed a problem that has more Dr. less
puzzled individuals ever since writing m into practice. Lord Timothy
put all his marks of punctuation, his commas, coons semicolons etc.. at the
end o his book. and told the reader to pepper and salt it to suit himself
Charles Reade is said to have done somewhat the same thing, in a more
mauer-ofcourse way, by writing his novels entirely without punctuation,
and letting the printer attend to that detail AS a mattero of present practice
emit publications. Ever since the perpexng little marks can into existence.
individual punctuation has tended to follow a rule in most cases and decide
for itself in others. y
And with all that may be said about punctuation, its use is pretty vel
rs much part and parcel Of the writer as are the words If his text To one
man a comma is merely "a breathing" and he puts n in where a reader
would seem to need o pause for breath; whereas tt others a omm is
rather a handy mark TO- setting off a word o clause that is to a degree
somewhat apart in form or sense from the direct implication of the sentence
who was the first to say ITO his class, "The best rule o all for punctuation is
to put in punctuation marks only where, without them, the meaning would
be in doubt" ~
The American business man, ont might imagine. must feel somewbat
bewfdend, and as if he had somehow got back to school and were reopening
his geography book, by the wealth of eographicalcommercia knowledge
just now being brought to his attention. "The Ievant" avs a renort iss,ed
by the American Manufacturers Export Association, lis a virgin market
where American goods may be sold in everincreasing quantities." Yet av
before yesterday how few American merchants ever thought of the Levant
IS a real place, a nam covering the 5OOO00O00 square miles of territory
and 150O00O0O people of the so-caled Near East, with which he might do
business There is hardly anything or sale in America that cannot be sold
in the Levant; and the present awakening o that interesting fact comes
naturally from the circumstances which have o provided the United States
with a great merchant feet that will soon be looking for cargoes-[Chrfsuan
Science Monitor. ~
The appearance of a real honestto-goodness tank on tn streets of
Winnemucca the day before yesterday undoubtedly gave to many residents
their frstg glimpse of camoufage as she is worm in ar time and for the ra
purpose of saving scalps. If n could, in Imagination, magnify the tank
ace of camoufaged ships in Atlantic harbors last year. Probably n two
attempts at camouhage were ever the same. ON ships at least Certainly the
specimens were widely different in appearance, although all attempts were
made with m wen-defned object of deceivfng the ~ The grotsoue
might imagine upon viewing it, Light effects from a distance we're carefully
considered and cooring was applied with the object IF making a thing
appear distinctly what it was not Stangs appearance ws not a desideratum