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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12
VACUUM CLEANER
DOES HOUSEWORK
AT THRILLING COST

For years their family had been OF
sufficient size to require various
forms of hired work about the house.
The parlor rug had been beaten by
man who was hired every spring
and fall for the purpose. Twice a
year for four years this had occurred.
And after the last time the boys had
come upon IL after school, immedi-
ately making 1t a temporary play
IgI ound. When 1t was brought in 1t
" as split clear across.
A serious consultation ensued. For
the first time husband and wife sat
down and figured out what their hired
cleaning was costing them
TheNnext day she went downtown,
saw a demonstration of a vacuum
cleaner and bought one.
The electric cleaner did more than
merely clean. One day IL saved the
wife a great deal of distress. She
lad noticed that the diamond was
gone from her solitaire, and after
searching in vain, her husband found
her almost in tears. He thought of
the vacuum cleaner at once. They
got II out, went over tufted furniture,
upholstered chairs and cracks and
crevices. Then they emptied the bag
on an old newspaper and examined
tie litter with an electric fiashlight.
After a few moments the diamond
was discovered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12
ELECTRICITY REEVES
DROPPING FLOWERS

Experiments OF considerable int
crest to florists and others interested
in flowers are being conducted at the
agricultural experiment station at
Purdue University to determine the
value of electricity as means of
preventing the dropping OF buds by
plants.
During a period of dark weather,
buds of the plants chosen for the ex-
pertinent began to drop on January
"a, and continued to do so during the
cloudy period until February s. when
a 1o0-watt lamp was placed above the
twelve plants which were under ex-
Fermentation.
Twelve flowers were picked from
these plants on February 10. and on
February IL. five OF the twelve buds
had full-blossom. while none of the
buds which had not been exposed to
the artificial light had developed any
color. The experiments are being
continued.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12

Electric Light Puts
New York Village
On the Map

On the road to Lake PlaciI in
the Adirondack region of New
York State, is the village of Will
mington. In 1913 Wilmington
was as primitive a village as
could be found on the entire
Adirondack trail. II boasted a
tavern, a blacksmith shop and a
few scattered dwellings,. The
tavern was the only reason that
anyone stopped there at all, not
for the liquid refreshments--of
course. not-but for luncheon. At
one time there had been a grist
mill and an old dam over the
river, but the dam had fallen
into disuse and the mill had long
ceased to grind any grist-
One day an engineer stopped at
the tavern-for luncheon-aud he
happened to notice the old un-
used dam in the nearby river. He
made a suggestion to the pro-
prietor of the tavern:
why not repair that dam and
put the falling water to a mod
ern use ?"
What use ?" asked the keeper
of the tavern.
MAKE it drive a small electric
light plant"
That's a good suggestion" adj
mitted the proprietor. "Ill think
it over" He thought it over.
decided, and acted.
Today the village is a live little
place with streets lighted cleo
trically, homes wired, electric
washers in them and other labor
saving appliances. In other words,
Wilmington is no longer a viii
lage where the motorists whiz
through, but a place where they
are glad to stop, refresh them
selves and enjoy the benefits of
electricity. AS for the proprie-
tor-he feels as if he had rubbed
Aladdin's lamp and reaped
rich reward. for the electric light
plant has enriched his Golfers and
brought more travellers to the
tavern.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12
RADIO IS MEDIUM
FOR MIRACLES OF
MODERN WIZARDS
Concerts and Sermons Are Car
ried Hundreds of Miles by
Wireless Wonder.

The wizards OF earth have unload
ed their magic.
The lightning. the flash. the blue
spark are their toys-they have
wrested from the Unknown the Sc
crets of Time.
Their new climax Is radio. With
radio they have made space seem like
nothing-have talked without wires
scross hundreds of miles-have made
life more useful, more zestful and
happy Fer by radio the following
feats have been done
Audiences 1000 miles on have
heard concerts and speeches.
The sick and infirm have listened to
church services right in their homes.
Pastorless churches have enjoyed
the music and preaching of other
churches many miles removed.
Babies out for an airing have been
dulled TO sleep by radio lullaablies.
sung at a DISTANCE.
Toy automobiles have been con-
trolled with great ease through the
air, suggesting astounding inventions
TO come
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12
ELECTRIC DEVICES
TAKE FIRST PLACE
AS WEDDING GIFTS
Sewing Machines, Coffee and
Tea Sets Are Among Most
Popular Selections.

June brides are certain to md
among their wedding gifts this month
a considerable proportion of articles
whose great value Is derived from the
circumstance that they work by cleo
tricity. Sentiment among the Gus
toners of electrical dealers is report
cd to be tending in that direction,
according to a partial countrywide
trade analysis reaching the CONNER
cial department Of the General Elec-
trio Company.
During an intensive gales drive
which a large manufacturer of cleo
trical devices for the home recently
made, the General Electric Company
keeping In particular touch with this
drive. desire on the part of many
people to secure electrical wedding
gifts for approaching weddings was
Hiade evident, judging from early re-
ports by dealers.
There is an electric. percolator, of
Grecian urn style. lined with silver.
finished In polished nickel with han
dies of ebonized wood, which is a
thing of beauty as well as utility. Or
the brides heart might easily be de-
lighted with a panel pot coffee set.
which includes percolator, tray, SUI
gar bowl and creamer, with cord and
plugs for the percolato. The Grecian
urn percolator, also comes with a set.
Some brides are apt to receive cleo
trio sewing machines as wedding
gifts. for the popularity of electric
stitching is undoubtedly increasing.
And some, quite likely. will be made
fappy with an electric range, thus
finding themselves able to look for
ward forever to dirtless, sootless,
cooking, that uses merely as much
heat as is needed for leach meal
cooked
And there are other gifts which
brides will welcome because they are
electrical-grills. coasters. irons, curl
ing irons, ovenettes, hot plates. vac
uum cleaners, clothes washers, and
dish washers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12
ELECTRIC TEA SET
IS POPULAR GIFT
FOR June BRIDES
Useful Device Saves Time and
Expense When Entertaining
Relatives and Friends.

In June, the month of marriages.
much attention is concentrated on
the bride and her gifts. Perhaps
her friends have given her
shower" and she has pridefully
shown them her trousseau and her
hope chest. The hope chest of the
modern girl contains many useful
things, in fact. II is often crammed
with 'gistie" sets that have been
collected with a view to the ext
gencies of modern housekeeping
methods
A Boston bride exhibited the con-
tents of her hope chest recently to
a group of feminine friends and
chief among the treasures was a
tea set with an electric hot water
kettle which drew forth many ad-
miring "Ohs" and "Ahs." The kettle
was fitted with a safety switch
designed to break the current auto
matically should the kettle acct
IDENTIFY go dry. With the aid OF this
Ingenious device one can easily put
the appliance back into service
without sending IT to the factory.
what an Improvement this set
Is upon the tea sets having water
kettle fitted with spirit lamp" was
the first thought of those who
viewed the artistic electrical tea
set. mo hunting matches. no fame
therefore no SCOT on the bottom Of
the kettle"
And no more search for the de-
parted spiritsr chimed in another
girl
This set nts beautifully upon
my new wheel tea wagon. on the
under side OF which is screwed
plug cluster connecting with a con-
venient outlet SO that II will be
very convenient for use in serving
afternoon tea" explained the bride.
Girls are really planning more for
home comfort now than they did
formerly in the matter of hope
chests. Instead of filling the chest
with frilly things edged with lace
and ribbon, they consider the cleo
trical appliances with approving eye,
the cast aluminium ware having the
distinction of fine silver. the lovely
linen sets, and quaint bright-pat-
termed china. They are indeed the
wise virgins" who bring a supply
of practical and beautiful things to
their new homes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12
ELECTRIC WASHER
CLEANS AND DRYS
FAMILY LAUNDRY
"BIue Monday" Disappears as
New Machine Lightens Bur-
den for Housewife.

1t seems extravagant talk to
claim any more wonderful accom-
plishments for the electric clothes
washer. and yet
A new make has Just come out
which seems miraculous in these
three respects: In fifteen minutes
1t washes the clothes clean; in two
minutes more it dries them wringer
dry: and in another fifteen minutes
it dries them ready to iron.
Blue Monday? Routed complete
ly, II this good news Is true! Wash
day and ironing day may be COM
bined into one day-and need not
be full day at that Moreover
this super-washer Will operate at
a cost of only IL cents worth of
electric current per hour.
This washer is said to handle the
most bulky and the most delicate
goods with equal efficiency and
equal absence of injury to the
clothes. 1t will take, in turn, rag
rugs. blankets, cotton-flled COM
forters, silks lingeries and laces.
The tremendous value of the small
motor is revealed in an unusual
manner in this washer. II is the
small motor, an outgrowth Of early
experiments at what are now the
Lynn, Mass, works of the General
Electric Company, and since perfected
by that concern, which operates this
as we'll as many other washers; and
also, in some types of the new
washer, works the wringer more
smoothly and less arduously than
human hands can do.
This sort of washer and its magic
motive power, the electric current,
are happiness makers-they are
making two smiles grow where only
one grew before
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12
BOYS DROWN IN QUARRY;
MOTHER DISCOVERS FATE

EASTON, Pa, June 11.-yirgil
Uhler, fourteen years old, and his
brother Howard, Eve. sons of Mr..
and Mrs. Stewart Uhler. of Edel-
mans near here. were drowned in
the quarry hole of the Pennsylvania
Slate Company near their home last
night The boys went to the hole
20 fish, and It Is supposed the young
sr fell in and his brother. who was
a good swimmer. jumped in after
him
Their mother found the straw hat
OF the older son on the bank. The
bodies were recovered this morn
ing from sixty feat of water
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12
Boosts Electric Roads.

Secretary of the Interior Fall
estimates that the electrificauon OF
$4,000 miles of railroads would on
tail a net investment of $3.50, 900, O0C
which would yield an annual saving
of S90.00O.000. The gross expendi-
ture would be in 1.-THE neighborhood
OF 100000. 900. so the project would
not only bring about great indus
trial activity, but would mean an
investment netting the general
public some IL per cent. -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
"AppIe-Pie Order"

Few persons take time to trace ex-
pressions they use every day. When
a thing is in "apple-pie order" for
example, you mean, of course, that it
is clean and neat and generally every
thing that 1t should be. The express
sion originated under somewhat differ
ent circumstances, observes the New
York Sun.
"Apple-pie order" is an old New
England phrase, and is well grounded
In the blue laws of several centuries
ago. Formerly the New England
housewife did little work on Sunday
and among the many things she didn't
do was baking. Everything Of that
nature was finished Saturday night.
When the baking was done all the
pies and cakes were ranged in row
on the kitchen shelf. With the -four
still on her hands and apron, the good
housewife would come out with
smile on her face ready for the Sab
bath. Everything was In "apple-pie
order"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
OZONE AND THE SAND MAN
The Two Are Quite Closely Related,
Though Probably Few People
Could Tell How.

People who spend their vacations at
the seashore at this time of the year
usually find that their nights are
dreamless and restful.
They say that he sea air makes
them sleepy. Wheeled along in a
beach chair, one is likely to feel drowsy
or even 60 to sleep.
1t is the ozone III the air that does
it. Yhe air at the seashore is full of
ozone, which might be called a con-
centrated oxygen. Ozone is a power
full and healthful stimuiant
Whence, by the way, comes the
nursery idea of the Sand Man, herald
of sleep?
The answer is that the approach Of
sleep checks the flow from the ear
ducts which keeps the eyes moist.
There results a .drynessS and slight
Observation-Disclosures of the lids, causing
one to rub the eyes. The Sand Man
has come, and it is time to go to bed.
Philadelphia Record.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
Rome's Naval Theater.

What in Rome were knows us nau-
nachiae were theaters in which repre-
tentation of naval engagements were
given. These theaters were built espe-
cially for this purpose, and such exhi-
bitions were originally instituted for
the purpose of intoxicating naval disci'
pline; but, in process of time, only
nalefactors or captives whose lives
had been forfeited acted In them,
They appear to have been conducted
on scale of such magnificence as
almost to exceed belief. Within thN
places set apart for them whole tiee =
went through their evolutions. In Z -
sea fights on Lake Fucinus. given ! p
Claudius, there are said to have be .
no fewer than 1900 combatan.s,-
Julius Caesar appears to have first
given a naumachia on an extensive
scale; his example was followed By
many of his successors on the imperial
throne; and at last they were fire.
luently exhibited at the expense OF
private individuals. as a means of in-
,reasing their popularity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
Peculiar Mine Elevator"

The Levant mine, which has been
the scene of one of CornWallS few
tin mine disasters, is the oldest and
most famous pit of its kind, and Is
probably the last in the country to
retain the old man engine" This is
method of getting men in and out
of the mine without rope and cage.
From top to bottom of the shaft is
huge rod, composed of massive beams
bolted together. At every twelve feet
is a small platform, just large enough
to give one man foOthold, and there
are corresponding platforms on the
side of the shaft. The rod is con-
tinually being raised and lowered
twelve feet. Stepping onto a platform.
one Is carried down twelve feet and
then steps off onto a platform at the
side of the shaft. Waiting there while
the rod does an upward movement,
one then steps on another platform for
the next down stroke again waits on
platform in the shaft, and thus
twelve feet at a time, with much get
ting on and off, reaches the bottom.
London Chronicle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
Man Who Builds Own Fortune.

1t is certain that the first Wander
bilt, the old commodore, who began as
skipper between New York and
Staten island putting dollar upon dol
lar and thought upon thought, plan
upon plan, became financial king &C.
cording to conditions in his time. He
built railroads, developed industries,
lived fuller, happier life, with more
variety and enjoyment in 1t than the
third Vanderbilt. He was not born in
to wealth, but acquired it; to him
wealth and millions were new things
1t is certain that man who starts
from the bottom, without the aid of
any one except his own hands and
brains, and acquires we'll being and
health and happiness by self-denial for
himself and for a wife and children,
will enjoy much more pleasure and
variety in life than a man born to
riches, who was not inspired by any
particular mbition.-Amerikai Mag
var Nepszava, Hungarian Daily.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY FEW
Migrants in East End Of London Use
an Ancient Celtic Tongue Among
Themselves.

Shelta Thar Is language used Sc
cretly among people Of the tinker class
and principally to be met with in Scot
land and Ireland. It's use was first dis
covered and made known in 1876 by
Charles X. Leland, an American anti
quarian, and Prof John Sampson of
Liverpool. One day, while walking
| by the seashore at Aberystwyth, they
encountered tramp who addressed
them in an unknown tongue. Both
were versed in the Romany or gypsy
language and were much surprised to-
meet one who spoke tongue Of which
they knew not q word.
They collected number of phrases
from this man and found on inquiry
that he had acquired this strange
speech from his wife, who was
tinker. The tinkers he said, kept
heir knowledge of the language Sc
9ret, speaking II only among them
selves. Later Leland encountered
many other persons who spoke Sheta
He found that in many of the drinking
places in the East end of London
where Migrants often congregate, the
language was freely employed, but
that when an outsider made his APP
pearance, it ceased at once to be spok-
en-. Scientific methods applied to the
study Of Shelta proved that it is no
mere system of bacl; slang or cant, but
an ancient Celtic speech.
Romany, the language Of the Eng
lish gypsles, is still spoken by large
number of persons. Among the ma
jority of them it has become corrupt,
but the older gypsy folk still speak
what is known as deep" Romany,
that is, the gypsy language In its pure
state.
The dialect of Shetland, although
itS-grammar is LOwland Scotch, is
very largely Morse and as spoken by
the Shetlanders among themselves is
scarcely understandable by the aver
age Scotsman. On the Isle of Man, a
Celtic tongue different from Gaelic or
WEIGH Is still used by a number of the
inhabitants.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
CanarTes Save Miners lives.

Canaries which don't have to sing
for a living and are not selected be-
cause of their pedigree or beauty are
employed by tho United States -.
reau of mines and generously I:
ed with quarters and subsistenc
the opinion of the men who
worked with them, these "herC-'
of the division of mine safety
and stations are numbered ulA &c!
the most important employees of the
bureau, says the Pittsburgh Gazette
Times. In cases Of underground t1re
or explosion the life of the coal and
metal miner depends almost entirely
upon the behavior of the little feath-
cred singer, which the miner has car
ried underground with him, Danger
to the miner in such cases is not in
dicated by any particular vocal dis
play of the bird. but rather by Its
sudden collapse in the presence of the
deadly "white damp" or carbon mon
oxide which is too often formed as
product of mine explosion or mine
fire
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30

the sick-room, to find Peter alone in
the dimly lighted sitting room. He
glanced at her, feeling rather than
hearing her presence, and called her.
Come over here, will you, Cherry?
! want to speak to you"
She came, with an inquiring and yet
not wholly unconscious look, to the
freside, and he stood up to greet her.
"Tired?" he asked, in an unnatural
voice.
II was just going to bed" she
answered, hesftatingly. But she sat
down, nevertheless; sank comfortably
into the chair opposite his own, and
stretched her little feet, crossed at the
ankle, before her, as If she were in
deed tired.
He knelt down beside her chair, and
gathered her cold hands into one of
his own. what are you and going
to do?" he asked.
She looked at himsin terror.
"But all that is changed - she said,
quickly, fearfully.
"Why is it changed?" he countered.
Il love you'll have always loved you,
since the days long ago, in this very
house! ! can't stop II now. And you
love me, Cherry"
ITO be continue
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
No True Century Plant.

There are no true century plants in
the sense that 1t takes them a hun.
dred years to bloom. A number of
plants, however, do not bloom until
they have lived for long term of
years. The classic example of such
plants is the TALBOT palm of India
which lives for so years or more and
becomes a tall tree before 1t blooms.
After 1t has sent up its immense
flower-stalk the whole plant dies.
Our American century plants" often
fruit at the end Of eight or ten years
under natural conditions, but In the
house they may refuse to bloom at all.
Many of the bamboos act like the GEN.
fury plants and bloom but once after
long period of vegetation. Such
species are known as monograph
plants.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
BELIEVE THEY HOODWlNK GOD
Chinese Seemingly Have Little Re-
spect for the intellectually
of Their Deities.

One of the strangest things about
the religion of the Chinese is the rev.
erence they hold for their gods, de-
spite the belief that the gods are gull
lible as a man of inferior intellect.
Instead of attributing infallbility to
the deities they worship, as all other
races have done, the Chinese resort to
tricks of childish simplicity and are
sure they have deceived tthe god.
Usually the tricks employed are to
make sure the god does not betray
the sins of Chinese to the higher
deities. An amazing example is the
treatment of the kitchen god just
before he is to start on one of his
periodic visits to heaven. This trip
is limited, because the kitchen god
may be absent only seven days
The householder thinks he must pre-
vent the god from reciting his sins to
the deities. So it is the general Gus
tom, before the god is to depart on
the seven days absence, to prepare
large hollow balls of the gods favorite
candy. The kitchen deity has a very
small throat. When the candy, of
which he is extremely fond, is placed
before him, the Chinese say the god
stuffs his mouth with it, being too
gluttonous to leave any behind. His
small throat prevents swallowing the
confection, and thus when he appears
before the ruling deities he is unable
to talk, and the householder's/ sins
remain a secret.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-30
GREAT SHOCK AFFECTS HAIR
Northumberland Cases Of sud- en-
Whitening over the More impor-
tant Nerve Centers.

There has been some interesting
correspondence In the Scientific Ameri-
can about the possibility of n persons
hair turning white overnight" and
now Elmer G. Still of Livermore,
Cal, contributes letter from the
viewpoint of a phrenologist. He as
serts that there are many cases on
record In which great shock to a
specially sensitive emotion was fol-
lowed at once by whitening of the
hair just over the region of the
brain In which this emotion Is sit
uated.
He cites one case of man with a
large bump of cautiousness, who was
upset from sail boat and chung all
night to its bottom. In the morning
his hair had turned grey In two tufts
the size of a half dollar on each side
of his head right over the centers OF
cautiousness.
Another was the, case Of woman
whose hair fell out over the region Of
conjugal love while her husband was
undergoing serious operation. The
hair grew in again, but quite white.
The region Of conjugal love Is situated
about two inches directly back hori-
zontally from the meatus of the ear.
Another is that of man with a
triangular tuft of white hair just below
the center of the back of the head,
over the region Of philoprogenitive-
ness, or love Of children, and on in
quiry Mr.. Still found that he was
man remarkably fond of children.