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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
The LowIy Corncob and Its $40 Furfural

Furfural is what the chemists call n
basic intermediary in dyes. That
means that you may make about as
many kinds of dye cut of furfural as
a good cook can make good things to
eat out of flour. They have shown
at least a dozen different shades of
cloth dyed with furfural. II is
highly useful, too, in the man
facture of paints and lacquers and
IL the making of bakelite, the sub
stance used in pipe stems and other
articles. In addition TO all that, fur
fural is such an excellent insecticide
that 1t has been used to a considerable
extent for that purpose.
About Il bushel of cobs is produced
for every bushel of shell corn and they
have been almost a complete waste.
Commercial plants are now being
equipped to manufacture half a dozen
products from them. One Of these
products is an adhesive of exception
ally high quality-said to be better for
a number of important uses than Il
adhesive previously known. Another is
cellulose, suitable for use in the man
ufacture of dynamite and various
other things. Paper has been made,
using a part of the corn cob product
as filler. Another product is acetate
of lime, from which acetic acid is
made.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

EGLIGEES patterned after the
IN garb of Chinese women are de
veloping popularity at a rate that
promises TO make them rivals of the
kimOno. They prove to be comfortable,
practical and Unexpectedly becoming
especially TO small ONE Other
skirtless models reveal a trOuser-wnrd
trend in boudoir clothes, as is apparent
in any representative display of such
garments. Turkish trousers of satin
or even of silk and metal tissues, over
low bodices, form the foundation for
long, loose coats of crepe %georgette
or chiffon, in the showiest and most
splendid examples of negligees; so
there is plenty of precedent for the
Chinese garments of much less mag
nificence, although nearly all of these
are fashioned in silk or satin which
Is more than fine enough.
An excellent example of indoor dress
OF Chinese inspiration is shown In the
figure at the left of the two pictured
above. 1t is of plain, deep blue satin
bordered with brocaded satin in which
palm leaves and irregular dashes of
color appear with green, henna and
blue figuring I'm the composition. Moth
ing could be much easier to put to-
gether than this cheerful negllgee.
At the right, crepe de chine and
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

he undressing and tame. No mat
ter whether of silk or cotton it is all
designed with reference to ribbon dec
orations and no manufacturer could
hope for any success who failed to
reckon with ribbon. Lingerie bows,
flower forms and ornaments that are
detachable are taken as a matter of
course in the wardrobe of today.
The pettlcoat pictured is made of
white wash satin and finished at the
bottom edge with a border of lace.
Deep scalloped pieces with bound
edges are set on instead of a fiOunce
and headed with a band of lace in
sertion. Small flowerlike rosettes
made of narrow pink ribbon are set at
the top ard bottom of the scallop. The
camisole Is made of q tilmy lace with
narrow satin ribbon Stimulating flow
ers applied to it. The same ribbon
supplies the shoulder straps and
makes the little blossoms set on where
they Join the body. Wider ribbon
with a picot edge takes care of the
adjustment at the waist and supplies
a pretty bow and ends for n finish
BY such means the much-occupied
women of today contrive 10 have those
delicate undertakings that are essen
tial to perfect dress.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
Why We Yawn.

There are two unfailing signs of
fatigue, says DIR. Halford Ross, the
home office factory inspector for Lon.
don. England. When the mind is tired
people cape and when the body is
tired they fidget. There is an idea tha!
gaping is Catching" but this is only
true If many people are tired together
Doctor Ross has watched children in
London schools, and he finds that dur,
ing the morning If one gapes the 9th,
ers do o follow suit, but towards the
end of the afternoon, when one gapes
the others do the same. When in In
dia Doctor Ross stood one morning or
the staircase Of the viceregal palace a
Calcutta and watched men and womei
going up and down past a statue of 6
yawning man. Nobody gaped. Tha
night there was a ball at the palace
and at five o'clock In the morning Doc
tor Ross again stood by the statue an
watched the people going home. Ev
y gaped, and this was simply bt
cause they were fatigued; when the
we're fresh, they could pass the yawI
lng figure with immunity.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
Highway to Join Twelve National Parks

TWELVE national parks lie in a
rough circle of about $500 miles
between Denver and the Pacific.
Starting toward the north, the visitor
comes in turn to Rocky Mountain
in Colorado, Yellowstone in Wyoming,
Glacier in Montana. Mount Rainier in
Washington. Crater Lake in Oregon,
Lassen Volcanic, Yosemite, General
Grant and Sequoia in California,
Grand Canyon in Arizona, Zion in
Utah and Mesa Verde in Colorado.
Between Mesa Verde and Denver are
the Mount Evans region, which is to
be added to Rocky Mountain and the
Denver municipal mountain parks.
These Il parks are more or less con-
nected by roads Of widely-differing
quality. What is needed and projected
is a national p~ark-tO-park highway
connecting with the Lincoln highway
and other transcontinental roads. The
visitors last year TO the national parks
numbered wei 10000 and more than
so per cent of this travel was by pri'
vate automobile.
June I A. L. Westgard represent
ing the national park service and the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
LOCATION OF BLEAK HOUSE"
Writer in London Times Describes, to
His Satisfaction, Building I'M
m~ortaIized by Dickens.

The city librarian of st. Alban, Eng
land, writes to the London Times as
follows, and thereby seems to settle a
literary controversy. "There is no
mystery" he says, 'ahOut the town
In, or near which Bleak house Is sit
uated. Why there has ever been any
controversy is difficult to understand.
The only question is the identity of
the house. 1t is quite probable there
never was a building agreeing struc-
turally with the M described by Dick
ems: but there is a house still In ex-
lstence which in the middle of the last
century correspondent geographically.
1t is situated at the end of Catherine
street, and from 1915 to about 1893
was called The Daltons' or Dalton
house, but from the latter date has
been known as Bleak house This
house when Dickens wrote his book
was separated from the town by fields,
hut the land has nov been built upon.
Even now the abbey tower a be seen
from the top windows ."-BostOn Tran
script.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

- EMILE women have always APP
" preciated all the little subtle
touches hat are the essentials of good
dressing. In days rome by Our grand
mothers learned the art of embroidery
and occupied many hours of their time
doing painstaking and beautiful work
on their belongings. They r%eplenished
their store of undermuslinS with
dainty handmade pieces, adding re-
finements to them in embroidery and
other stitching. Underwear of fine
cOttOns, decorated with exquisite EN-
broideries, is as much admired as
ever, hut most of 1t is made in other
lands than ours.
Meantime styles in undertakings
progress. They have not grown any
less dainty but they have become
more luxurious. Wash silks and
| satins, laces and even chiffOns have
been added to the materials used for
making them and ribbons have re.
| placed embroidery. The camisOle pet,
ticoat and boudoir mantle pictured
here reflect the mode in luxurious and
beautiful undertakings of silk which
has eclipsed cotton in the favor OF
many fair women
If It were not for embellishments OF
ribbon our underwear of today would
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
ARK HAD LIVELY CROSSING
For One Thing, orane-outang Chased
Crew Out Of Engine Room
and Took Charge.

The swan started something when II
reached forth and plucked a bag of
tobacco from the unsuspecting hand of
the quartermaster.
All in a cluster, the elephants be-
gan To trumpet, the tigers to o
the monkeys to chatter, the snakes to
hiss, and above all there was raised
the clarion call of a giant o~rang-outang,
or whatever it is an Orang-Outang does
when it breaks out of the reservation.
Many of the animals, freshly pluck
ed from the primeval forests of India
and therefore filed with jazz and pep
per, were entirely willing to join the
mutiny. The giant orang-outang chose
the engine o to present his act.
His arrival there was a signal for a
grand hegira Of engineers, firemen,
coal passers, water tenders and other
beavers who toll in the bowels of a
s~ea-going steamship.
Let it be explained that all this hap
pened aboard the good ship Haleakala
while on its way to San Francisco
from Calcutta.
No sooner had the Orang-Outang es-
tablished himself as king of the engine
room than he began to experiment with
electric switches and such. In his en-
thusiasm the O"rang-Outang touched
two wires at one and the same time, an
act that caused what is known as a
short circuit.
The odor of singed hair filled the
air. To get even the orang-Outang I'M
limbered a crOwbar and began to lam
bast the electrical switches, a bit of
sabotage that caused the ships officers
to fire 46 shots by actual count. Their
aim was perfectly punk. Not a bullet
registered. In the meantime the orang-
outang's m%onkeying with the electrical
steering gear caused the Haleakala 10
back toward Honolulu, a port that al
ready had been visited.
After 46 shots had been fired at the
orang-outang the animal retreated to
his cage and went to sleep.
Other incidents combined TO make
the voyage interesting, too. A bull
elephant, weighing three tons, died.
and was derricked overheard, but the
carcass failed to sink in spite of huge
weights attached thereto.
Oh, yes, one thing more; a sailor got
too near one of the lions cages and the
king of beasts removed the southwest
part of his trousers.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

g%eorgette make m equally simple in
door dress having a straight chemise
slip of the heavier material and an
over garment of lace and georgette,
with square neck that allows 1t TO slip
over the head. A ribbon girdle and
small spray of ribbon flowers acquit
themselves perfectly as finishing
touches. A bandeau Of ribbons on the
head is substituted for a boudoir cap
and proves an advantage in the direc-
ton of dignity.
Very pretty negllgees of lightweight
brocaded satins and in novelty crepe
de chine are among the last addition
TO indoor clothes. They are usually
cut like long, loose and slightly draped
coats with long shawl collars that are
a froth of lace frillS and organdie.
Bandeaux of frills and ribbon, with
tiny chiffon roses. for trimming, cOr
respond with the collar and complete
the daintiest and most easily put on
of n~egligees, as they fasten with a
single ornament (of chiffon roses) be-
low the waistline. They look much
like an opera cape in outline.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
WASHINGTON
SIDELIGHTS
How 1922 Appropriations Are to Be Made

This change will center I'm the hands
of a single committee the work of pre-
pairing appropriation bills heretofore
handled by seven different committees.
Under the new system the appro-
priatlons committee of the house VIII
be made up of thirty-ive members.
There have been twenty-one members
of the committee heretofore. In b
past the appropriations committee has
handled such annual supply measures
as the legislative, executive and judi
cial bills, the sundry civil bills u
the various deficiency bills.
The six other committees whose
power In handling appropriations lave
been transferred TO the appropriations
committee are those on military az
fairs, naval affairs, agriculture, foreign
affairs, post office and Indian affairs.
The change in rules does not affect
the Committee on rivers and harbors,
which will continue the preparation OF
the annual rivers and harbor appr0-
| p~rlations bill, or the committee or pub
lie buildings and grounds, which Will
handle public buildings
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
Garden stevenson's Memorial.

On vaillma at Apia, Samoa, once
the property of Robert Louis Steven
son and more recently the site of the
government house, a garden is being
laid out that Will be a memorial to
the novelist. Rows of sago palms
have been planted along the drlveways
and the island agricultural department
has undertaken to obtain the plants
and flowers most liked by Stevenson
which car be grown in Samoa. There
was formerly no garden on the prom
erty and the n now established will
be a gracious tribute to a man as
fond as he was of nature and outdoor
life. S~tevenson's admirers will also be
glad to know that, according to re-
ports, their complaints have borne
fruit In that to the Stevenson memo
rlals on the island and the novelist's
tomb on Mount Vaca will be given
more thorough carr and better pro
lection than In the past.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
FAMOUS ROMAN FEAST DAY
May 20 Has Been for Centuries a Day
Of Merrymakinp in the Italian
Capital.

Though the night Of May % was
witches night" in Rome no serious
accident was reported next day. The
witches which fly on broomsticks be.
tween the ancient hills of the Gaelic
and Esquilino apparently were afraid
of the broom and the basin Of salt put
outside so many doors and went home
in despair.
May "a Is st. John the Baptist's
day, one always kept by ol~d-fashioned
Romans as a day for eating snails
Snails are the Roman Idea of the
locustS which st. John the Baptist ate
when in the desert. But why witches
should try to take possession of Rome
on the night before his feast day is
a mystery. They do fly about OF
broomsticks, says popular report, and
salt and a broom alone will keep them
out of homes.
BY some hidden law which the
Romans themselves don't try TO ac.
count for, no witch will enter a house
before which stand a basin Of salt and
a broom until she has counted every
grain Of salt In the basin and all the
wlsps in the broom. As the nights
are short in May the witch gives up
the task in despair, knowing she could
never finish her job before sunrise.
The night of May % is a great night
for the Roman people; they gather II
the fields outside st. John Lateran
eat snails, dance, sing and throw flow
ers at each other.
An odd modern note is given by al
enormous merry-go-rOund, opposite the
ancient church dedicated to st. John
Its wooden horses go round and rounC
to American ragtimes, fox trots anC
bunny-hugs. 1t is a mixture of ole
and new worthy of that ex%traOrdinar!
city. where all the centuries get jun
bled up together and make friends in
way you might search the world TO
and not find elsewhere.
The May night festival is older thar
John the Baptist and marks the tradi
ton of the old Roman springtime jOl
lily called the lupercali. Thes
feasts were in honor Of the wolf whicI
fed Romulus and Remus, the twil
founders of the city. A real live vol
is kept in the capitol till that day /
memory of this one; for had ther
been no wolf to feed the twins Their
would be no Rome today, the Roman
argue.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
MONEY LOST OR DESTROYED
Government Has Source Of Profit In
All Currency That is Not Pre-
scented for Redemption.

Many trade dollars-of the variety
issued some forty years ago in a futile
effort to compete in the orient with
the far-famed Mexican silver dollar
have never come back. They were
not of legal tender for more than So,
though when abandoned, a reasonable
time was given for exchanging them
for standard silver dollars. Those
still extant are of only bullion value,
except perhaps to collectors.
Likewise a substantial amount of
paper money is still officially rated as
"outstanding." but Is never expected
to return for redemption. II is esti-
mated that 1 per cent OF all paper
money is lost or destroyed. and when
such happens the government profits.
This is the case even with national
bank notes.-Nation's Business.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

American Automobile association, left
Washington ~ automobile for Den
yer. From there he started on a
pathfinder" circuit Of the national
parks named, seeking the best route
for the park-to-park highway.
In August he will report at Denver.
Then a large party will go under his
guidance over his preliminary route
and make selection of a permanent
route.
The purpose of this trip Is three
fold: To select a park-to-park route,
which is to be improved by state and
county organizations pending assist
ance from the federal government &.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

WASHINGTON Budget legislation,
w which failed in the last session ow-
ing TO the presidents veto, will prob
ably be enacted in the nest session.
A year has been lost, however, and
the budget system cannot apply TO the
appropriations for the fiscal year be-
ginning July /, 1921.
In the meantime a new system of
making appropriations will be tried,
owing to q change in the rules of the
house, which was put through in the
closing days of the recent session as
supplemental to budget legislation
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

PROBABLY you think of 6 corncob
as a handy thing to eat green
cor from and the thing from which
the good old Missouri meerschaum'
is made. Stop, look. read! HencefOrth
you must know the lonely cOrncob as
the source of furfural and half a
dozen other things, but especially fur
fural. The chemists of the agricultural
department have discovered that the
corncob is a regular catch-all of good
things.
Up to this time furfural has been so
rare that It has sold as high as $50
a pound. Every ton of corr cobs will
yield about thirty pounds of furfural
as a by-product, and the chemists esti-
mate that IT can be manufactured in
this way for less than 20 cents a
mound. What 1t will sell for is another
story.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

Curt" interjected Nesbit, fercely.\
Mounting upon a seat, l LOOKED
about me. One thought was para
mount in my mind-tO find that girl
and get her safely out of the theater,
| strained my eyes in the direction of
the place where she and her compan-
ion had been sitting, wondering des-
pairingly how l was to distinguish one
slim, golden-haired girl in that surg
ing, swaying mass Of humanity. Pres
emily, down at the side of the audi
torlum, close by one of the boxes, l
caught sight of a red-gold head. 1t
was merely a glimpse, lost again IN
stantly in the movement of the crowd.
But l was sure 1t was she, and that
she had managed to work her way
along the seat aisle TO where she was
standing. So l wedged myself as best
| could i'm that direction.
AT first / clambered over the backs
of seats. Then succeeded in pushing
my way across the aisle. ave
knows l tried not to hurt any n In
my mad scrambled But as | looked
up and saw the menacing cloud grow
ing denser and it's shadow falling more
darkly upon the struggling crowd l
grew desperate. What II she hould
be torn from her place and get mixed
up in that mad throngl Again l
stepped upon a seat and looked. There
she still was, pressed close against the
base of the box-clinging to it for dear
life! The sight spurred me on. When
within a few yards of her l waved my
hand in token that | was coming. she
must see and recognize the signal, L
thought. At last / was near enough
TO be conscious-really, or In magma
tiOn-of that faint, elusive perfume OF
v~iolets, which to my excited imagina-
ton seemed the very emanation OF her
sweet spirit. The next moment, dls-
heveled, breathless, | had reached her
had grasped her hand and was
painting hoarsely Don't be fright
enedv
"I'm not frightened she gasped'
cllnging to my hand. 'Only-only the
crowd is so terrible
81 put my arm about her and some
how we managed to work our way
down to the stage and scramble upon
1t. The fire was almost e~Xtinguished
when we reached the wings and we
easily got u through the stage dooI
Of the theater. Dozens followed ouI
example.
"'Are you all right-not fright
ened or faint7" | asked when We
reached the street.
"'All right. thank YOU returned the
Lady of the violets. steadily.
"'You haven't lost anythingr ! ques
toned. Your opera bag, your"
"'Only my respect and esteem fo'
one human being whom ! trusted
she said sternly.
Il made no comment-how could !
But suddenly observing that she hell
the remnants of her bouquet of VIC
let's. remarked And you hung on Il
those violets through it ALL
$50 ! did, she exclaimed with
faint smile, and then added hastily
Dad gave them to me just as | lief
l home this evening""
. Hammond paused and sat gaZini
! musingly down into the street.
J WELL" prompted Nesbit, us tina
the end of the story, JackT"
E "No-oh. no-only the beginning,
i returned he gayly. Just the preface
E the real story is TO come when tn
5 Lady of the Violets-otherwise Mis-
Katherine Reed-becomes Mrs. job
: Hammond. which event will, by tn
grace of God. take place next spring.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

smokers in a campaign against careless
use of fire in all forests. Smokers, sta
tistics show, are annually responsible
for a large number of CONGREGATIONS
In timbered areas, causing immense
losses. The letter suggests that the
tobacco companies can render an In
valuable service in this movement by
including in tobacco packages brief
printed legends urging smokers to take
every ]precaution TO prevent the spread
of fire from matches or burning to-
baccO.
With millions of tourists visiting the
national forests and national parks
each summer the question of the care
less smoker is one of national import
ance.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

kNORE han fifty department Of agri-
Wk culture activities will have to be
abandoned, according to Secretary
Meredith, because of reductions in
the annual appropriation. The bill ap-
propriated approximately $31, 100000.
This, he says, is 100000 less than
the department needs and PISS, 600
less than was appropriated for this
year. AS a matter of fact the appro-
~priation for the 1920 fiscal year (calen-
dar year 1919 was $SS,s99, 7e1.
Work designed to wipe out our hog
cholera will have to be abandoned
IN several states. Cooperative work
toward improving the quality and In
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

inch wide being inserted is a thing
which even the most inexperienced
sewer can make. Fasten the elastic
with a non-rusting hook and eye. II
you make the petticoat of washing
material, take out the elastic when
It goes to the laundry, as 1t perishes in
water. The petticoat should not. be
more than one yard and three-Quarters
round the hem.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
Eastsns In Center Back.

The blouse that fastens In the n
ter back is the favorite of the mo-
ment. Many of these blouses are fin
ished at the neck In front with old
fashioned frills. either gathered or
accordion plated. of white net, or or
candle when the blouse proper Is
shown In color, or vice versa.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
Ancient Inquiry,

"We are still seeking" said the sc
mist, ito ascertain the exact pu
lose for which the pyramids of Egyl
'ere constructed"
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum, a
ent-mindedly. Some of these invt
igations do take a long time"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10
methodist" Church.

The word Methodist" is derived
from a Greek word, meaning method
or rule. 1t was applied in derisiOn
to those following the methods of
John Wesley, but he accepted the term
and made it a feature that the rules
and methods of the Savior we're fol-
lowed.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-10

Not Always to Be Considered.
as It ever the right thing for a
man to pay attention to a married
woman7"
"Sure, II she's his wife,"