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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
They See With Their Ears

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 An invention so marvellous as to baffle the understanding is the optophone, an instrument by which all books will be opened to the blind. It does away with the raised letter, putting the sightless on even terms with those who can see. In accomplishing this result. it works not through touch, but through sound; the sound of the printed page, the ordi- nary printed page! Literally, it makes the books talk. Or, as one writer graph- cally has put it. the blind "see with their ears"
 The inventor of this wonder of wonders is Dr. F. E. Fournier D'Albe. It's per- fector and recent demonstrator to amazed audiences is Prof. Archibald Barr of Glasgow. When the optophone is in action. first to strike the eye IS the familiar telephone receiver Second is an open book, face downward upon the relatively small machine. The book is not placed there by chance; it is feeding it's contents letter by letter, word by word, to the wizardry of the mechanism thence over the wire to the ear and brain of the blind.
 How is it done? The explanation sounds too fantastic for facts, yet fact 1t IS. Resting face downward upon the roof of the optophone, the page, the ordinary type letters, are Illuminated by strong electric light. However similar some oi them may be, no two letters are actually alike; each throws different shadow casts different rays. These srays are transformed into differing sounds. read- fly distinguishable, one from the other "The rays from the various letters re- act on certain rare substances in the interior of the instrument and produce distinctive sounds" These sounds the listened instantly hears, and translates into the authors words and meaning, as the tale is told. Of course, the listener must learn, so that he knows them suo- consciously, the meaning of the sounds. The sense of hearing in blind persons IS unIISuallX acute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

the hatch has started.
 Don't turn the flame up high enough Co smoke or deposit soot.
 Don't fail to clean out the incubator thoroughly after each hatch.
 Don't leave the incubator doors open while turning or cooling the eggs
 Don't fail to test the eggs repeatedly. so that you may know the size of the air-cell
 Don't try to hatch duck and hen eggs ir the same incubator at the same time Don't blame the incubator If the hatch Is poor-it may be your fault or the eggs, 10 chances to one it is. Don't think you know more about 1t than the manufacturer of the incubator and try to change his instructions.
 Don't have mixture of brown and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

an1 curtailment of agricultural activity in the west. In the event of war, par ticuiarly war in which some hostile nation or group of nations should con- trol the seas, this condition might lead to disaster for the United States.
 For these reasons it is felt that the time is now opportune to revive agri- culture In the east In New England, dairy farming has been the most com mon type but the frap of milk com mbines in the large cities has been so strong that a great many farmers have found Carrying unprofitable and have had to give 1t up. The census figures foS New Hampshire farms, recently an nounced, are probably typical of condi- tions in other states similarly situated Not only did the number of farms and their improved acreage decrease be- tween 1910 and 1920, but practically every crop was diminished, as well as the number of cattle on the farms. The only considerable increases were in land values, mortgages and number of tenant farmers.
 MAINE MAY SHOW WAY
 Through the elimination of western competition in some degree, eastern agriculture gains some advantage from the high freight rates, but it's energy is at so low an ebb that artificial respi- ration is necessary. Maine has, how ever. anticipated Secretary Wallace, and if the programme now under con- sideration there is carried out in full, 1t may show the way to other states along the Atlantic coast,
 As preliminaries, the chamber of commerce of Portland and other com mercial organizations in the state, succeeded, through a well-devised plan of publicity in securing support from farmers and city dwellers for an elab- crate good roads programme and the construction of a state pier at Port land, so that Maine farms will be made accessible either by highway or water way. From the state pier it will be possible to transship from small coastwise vessels, farm produce to steamships for Boston and other coast cities. Meanwhile, to counteract the drift of young men away from the farms or to the Canadian northwest the state is stimulating immigration from Scandinavia, and cheap power is being made available through develop ment of the states water resources Agriculture in Maine is already show Ing symptoms of recovery, and the promoters of the various enterprises S now under way are decidedly hopeful Of excellent results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
Some Incubator Don'ts

From Farm Life.
 Don't fail to keep lamp well filled and cleansd.
 Don't use the same wick for more than one hatch. Don't forget that the incubator must be ventilated.
 Don't turn nor cool the eggs after the first one starts pipping.
 Don't neglect cooling the eggs; 1t helps II ake strong chicks. | Don't add eggs to the incubator after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

the idea Of orlglnat- ing a new fad which
 shall be known oy his name. like the
 daguerrotype or "Po- tatoes O'Brien" will have to reckon with the priority claims of several hundred generations of his- torical characters, most of them wear
 ing brown boards. Just why boards and bigamy seem to have gone hand in hand
 through the ages is a matter for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
By ROBERT c. BENCHLEY
 AssOcIate Editor of Life

'pTo,nr nIIresP0ndent t3 The Ags-HersId
 New York, May 7.-(Special )-Either more men are marrying more wives than ever before, or they are getting more careless about it. During the past week oigamy has crowded baseball out of the papers and while this may be due in part to the fact that it was a cold, rainy week and little baseball could be played. yet there is tendency to be noted there somewhere All those wishing to note a tendency will continue on into the next para graph.
 There is of course, nothing new in bigamy. Anyone who goes in for it with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
Bigany Fast Gaining Fauor As Popular Indoor Sport

getting more careless about it. (That sounds very, very familiar. It is barely possible that it is the sentence with which this dispatch opens. We say so many things in the course of one dis patch that repetitions are quite likely to creep in).
 At any rate, the tendency seems to be toward an increase in bigamy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

professional humorists to determine. We certainly haven't got time to do it here.
 IDEAL BIGAMY ~ But the multiple-marriage unearthed during the past week have a certain honey flavor lacking in some of those which have gone before. For instance, the man in New Jersey who had two wives living right with him all of the time in the same apartment. No need for subterfuge here; no deceiving one about the other. It was just a matter Of walking back and forth between the dining room and the study. This is, of course, bigamy under ideal conditions. But in tracing tendency like this we must not deal so much with concrete cases as with drifts and curves. couple of statistics are also necessary, espec- ially if it is an alarming tendency that is being traced. The statistics follow, III alphabetical order:
 In the United States during the years l9lS-1s1s there were 4956,673 weddings, 2 24S5,S45 of these were church weddings, strongly against the wishes of the bride grooms concerned In these weddings 10- 4S9,392 silver olive forks were received as gifts
 Starting with these figures as basis, We turn to another report, which covers the manufacture and sale of rugs. This has picture of rug in it and a darned good likeness it Is too
 In this rug report we find that 1t takes a Navajo Indian only II days to weave a rug 12x5 feet with a swastika design in the middle. Eleven days, It seems in- credible Why, it takes only 365 days to make year,
 WHAT? HOW? WHEN? Now having seen that there tare 7S, 900 men and women in this country today who can neither read nor write and that Of these only per cent, or a little over half, are coored what are we to con- ciude? What is to be the effect on our national morale? Who is to pay this gigantic bill for naval armaments?
 Before answering these questions any further than this, let us quote from an authority on the subject, man who mas given the best years, or at any rate some very good years of his life to re- search in this field, and who now takes exactly the stand which we have been outlining in this article
 l would not" he says in a speech de- llvered before the Girls Friendly So clety of Laurel Hill, T would not for one minute detract from the glory of those who have brought this country to US present state of financial prominence among the nations of the world and yet as think back of those dark days. I am impelled to voice the protest of nilJions e or American citizens yet unborn"
 Perhaps some of our little readers re. member what the major promise of this olspatch was. If so, will they plea SC communicate with writer Oh.S vest Bigamy!
 Well, 1t certainly is funny how many cases of bigamy you hear about now adays Either more men are marrvins s- more "lves than ever before. or they are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
AID FOR FARMERS { IS MOST PRESSING {. NEED OF THE DAY
This Is Opinion of Officers of Agriculture Department, Who Hope to Interest Busi-
 ness Men in Project
By RALPH BARTON Special Correspondent of The Age Herald Copyright. 1921, by The Age-HeraId)

Washington, May 7.-ISpecial. )- Rehabilitation of agriculture in the eastern states is perhaps the most urgent need of the country today, in the opinion of Secretary Henry C.. Wallace and other officials of the de- pertinent of agriculture, ,who hope to interest business men of the eastern cities, through chambers of commerce and similar organizations, in projects to assist the farmers.
 High transportation rates are throt~ ting agriculture in many parts of the country They are likewise sounding the knell of specialized farming for Hhe farmer who raises wheat exclu- sively cannot afford to import vege- tables and fruits at present high freight costs.
 Farmers in the middle west are find 1ng it increasingly difficult to ship Aneir produce to eastern markets. In some of the southern states hay sells for $3S ton, though it is shipped from the middle west at $6 Naturally the demand for if, at $3S is limited, and the opportunity of the western farmer to market it is small What applies to hay applies to other crops. It is less expensive to send a shipment of wheat from Texas to Holland, than to send it from Texas to Kansas
 MIGHT MEAN DISASTER
 Because freight rates are holding western produce out of the eastern markets, Argentina is coming into prominence as supply source for az uicultural goods in the eastern states. Brazil is preparing 10 compete with Argentina in this respect. As result, dhe western farmer will tend, 1t is ex- pected, to abandon specialized farming, and to raise produce primarily for his own family, taking care that any sur Ilus he may obtain is of a nature that can be easily marketed The conse- auence will be- in the opinion of offl- cials of the department of agriculture, a growing dependence of the Atlantic seaboard upon South American produce
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

, try, as evidenced by the fact that many corporations and numerous individuals
 rely upon his judgment when seeking competent men and women for speci- fled positions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

white egss in the incubator st the same time as the difference In tho thickness of shells often makes the hatch unsatiu- factory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

More than thrcc-fourths of switAer- lands taxes are direct
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-31
BALL ROOM TO BE RESPLENDENT
 AT INAUGURAL

Indications are that the approach ing inaugural ball to be held at the Casino on January 3, is to be a most brilliant affair in every way.
 Mayor AtWater wants to meet as many citizens as possible and wants as many Bridgeportef5s as possible to meet and get acquainted with the folks who ane really their neighbors, but whom they never had the oppor- tunity of seeing and knowing before' The event is to be informal
 The committee in charge is making every effort to make the evening one that will be long remempered throughout the city. Two bands will provide the music, SpiedePs string or chestra and the famous Wheeler SS Wilson organization.
 Decorator will be put to work to make the big ball room look raSplen- dent during the next few days ana one of the leading caterers will pro vide the lunch during the evening;
 The grand march which will be lea by Mayor and Mrs Atwater will be conducted by Lawrence T. Gallagher chairman of the floor committee.
 MT B. I. Ashmun. chairman Of the souvenir program committee, mas an nounced that the young ladies who will distribute the programs WILL De composed of Miss Louise AtWatef, Miss Mary TIincks, Mrs J. w. Hill, Miss Lois Cole, Miss Marjorie DeLoss' Miss Elizabeth Seeley. Miss Caroline Cthanman. Mrs. W. Gerald Bryant, Miss Elizabeth BassicIl, Miss Margar- ct Neithercut, Miss Anna Swinnerton, Miss Dorothy NorthrOp, Miss Harrlet Windsor, Miss Elsa Claudsr, Miss Doris wheeler, Miss Julia Wheeler, and Miss Lorraine Armstrong.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-31
CHOOSE JURORS FOR NEXT TERM
 OF CIVIL COURT

The jurors chosen yesterday for the January term of Superior court, civil side, includes the following, sum moned to appear at 10 o'clock Tues day morning. for the session at which Judge Christopher L. Avery, Norwich, will preside:
 Bethel, H. Cornelius Judd and Richard NJ. Judd; Bridgeport, A. Will liam Bell, William Clifford and Frank H. Neff; Danbury, Thomas P. Cave and Hiram B. Taylor; Fairfield, James O. Bu1kley and Fred B. Wake man; Greenwich, Edward F. Bigelow, Frederick w. Child and George B. Cooke; New Canaan, Gardner Hoyt and William E. Swift; Newtown, Charles Cavenaugh and William A Honan; Norwalk, Horace Damn, Aaron Martin and Arthur N. Paddock; Shel- ton, Philip Jones and Edwin c. Wixon; Stamford, James H. GibIin, Herman HOefer and Gerald H. Howes; Stratford, Homer G. Foote and George F. Wood; Westpcrt, Hen- ry T. Bradley and John P. McCor- mick.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-31

studded with genuine humor and comedy. and none of it strained be- cause it is all so human. You see real people acting as real people would act, and next weeks audiences will leave the Lyric feeling a great deal better for having seen such an inspiring little play.
 Eveta Nudsen will play the title role of Rebecca, the winsome little New England girl who IS sent away to live with her maiden aunts.
 Douglas Fairbanks in his thrill and comedy masterpiece, 1.-The Molly coddle." will be the feature attraction for the Sunday night pho*oplay con- cert. 'Astray from Steerage," Crimson C1ue.'' Nick Carter story, with other features will complete the bill. There will be performances at 6 and o'clock.
 Experience" will come to the end of it's highly successful engagement at the Lyric tonight.
 Beginning tomorrow night and for the full week thereafter, the motion picture version of "Our Mutual Friend" Charles Dickens last com plete novel, will be the feature at traction at the Empire theatre.
 In Charles Dickens famed novel. this great English author has achtev- ed the imp ossible in weaving mystery and melodrarna, love and greed, into a rattling good story without sacri- flee to simplicity which characterized all of his writings. In the motion picture adaptation of ''Our Mutual Friend" 1t is said that the producers have masterfully transformed the story to the silver sheet with unusual fidelity.
 Old world classics which have been successfully viZualized on the screen can be counted the finger tips of half a. hand. Producers in the past have considered the works of the old authors either too "deep'' to be grasped by the average mind or too complex for simple adaptation as a photoplay.
 In tour Mutual Friend" however, the producers have transferred Charles Dickens great novel to the silver sheet intact. The producers have learned-and so will local Theatregoers-that painstaking care and endless expense make nothing in the realm of the silent drama inn possible.
 Today and tomorrow will be the last opportunities to see What Do sensation, presented by Wid Cunning, which has been packing the Empire theatre all this week. Through con- stant study of different types Of peo- pie of different desires Lois Weber has developed an uncanny ability in depicting the big vital problems that confront the average American in such a vigorous way that people watching her plays say 'She must mean me % What Do Men Want?" is the pro- duct of Lois Weber's ripened genius, her greatest picture, which means much to movie fans who recall Where Are My Children?" ''To Please One Woman" Scandal" etc. It presents in gripping way a problem vital to every American home No mother,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-31

Park City lodge, N. E. O. P, has changed it's meeting nights from the first and third Wednesdays, of the month to the first and third Tues days The lodge meets in the For esters' hall, on Broad street.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-31
DEPT. OF JUSTICE
 WANTS LOWER BREAD

washington. Dec. 31-The Depart ment of Justice believes bread prices should go down.
 attempts of bakers in some localities to boost the price of bread to retailers, thereby causing an increase in the price consumers would have to pay.
 Attorney General Daughertys at +ention was called to these efforts to raise prices and he characterized them as example of the profiteering the government seeks to stop.
 with wheat and flour selling at nrfces about as low as any time dur ing the past 15 years. bread prices should go lower" Daugherty said.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-31
Beauty Chats
REDUCTION,
By EDNA KENT FORBES

REDUCTION.
 There are many women who are only five or ten pounds more than they shOuld--who want to know now to reduce this small amount without going in for the strict diet necessary belong to this class, if you wish simply to lose few pounds or if you have tendency toward heshiness and do not want to gain, you will find the following simple suggestions val uaib1e.
 Whenever you have a choice of foods, choose the one which is least fattening. This means, of course, that you will have to learn which are the fattening foods, but you can read up on this in half an hour. If its choice between a thick soup or thin one, for instance, take the thin one. Don't eat the cream sauce that comes with vegetables use less butter, do away entirely with pota- toes, take less cream and sugar in your coffee In this easy way you can eat what everyone else eats and yet eliminate a lot of fattening things from your diet.
 Try not to drink water with meals. This makes the assimilation of food so much easier that more of it seems to go to fat. The woman who has a tendency toward flesh digests so easily that she should do without this extra help.
 DO without a nap in the daytime. The afternoon nap Is only for the thin, or the overworked, or the in- valid.
 Try to speed up a little Most peo- pie who have a tendency toward fat take their life and their work very state which I would not want to change. The only thing that I sug gest Is that the days work and exer- else should be done faster.
  Anxious - If henna Is used full strength on the hair and left on for a long time, it will turn the hair red, but used with castile soap as a sham poo 1t will not effect the color in any way. All it does is to give the hair certain glossiness and richness of tone which makes it more beautiful but which does not change its shade. To make the shampoo you want one ounce of powdered Egyptian henna and three ounces of powdered castillo soap. This makes enough for several shampoos. Use about one heaping tablespoonful to a pint of hot water. Lather this over the head, let it stay for about ten minutes, then rinse off through four or five rinses.
 R. F. Diff you have a rough skin with large pores steam the face by holding hot wet cloths over it for few moments and then massage with cleansing cream. Wash this off with hot water and castile soap and end Wtlh d COIu IiHSe WlIn grey eyes and chestnut brown hair you will look best in all shades of grey, blue and rose pink.
 All inquiries addressed to Miss Forbes in care of the Beauty Chats'' department will be answered in these columns in their turn. This requires considerable time however, owing to the great number received. So If a personal Or quicker reply is desired a stamped and sef-addressed envel- ope must be enclosed with the ques- ion.-Editor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-31
BANK MAY BE RESCUED.

Rome, Dec. 31-There were indica- tions today that the financial situation is improving and that there would be no panic. Hopes are now held out that the Banca 1taliana Dfsconto which suspended on Thursday owing 4,000,- 900 900 lire, may be rescued through a joint government and private as siStance.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-31
NTw SILVER DOLLARS.

Washington, Dec 31-The new sil- yer dollar of the 1921 design-the peace dolIar-wiu be ready for dis tribution Tuesday, it was said today at the treasury Coinage of the new dollar is being rushed by the Phila- delphia mint and the first dollar of the new series struck off has been presented to President Harding.
 wife or sweet heart should miss it, and no man who values happiness can afford to. Performances are continu- ous from 1880 to 10:30.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-31
MITCH INTEREST IN
 HARTFORD LIQUOR CASE

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 31-Caspar N. Cummings, proprietor of the Rus tie Inn in North Guilford and the Rustic Lodge at Madison, was sent enced by Judge Edwin S. Thomas yes- terday to sixty days in jail for viola ktion of the Volstead act. MT. Cum oings was found guilty by a jury of assessing liquor on April 15, last.
 A Margaret tight, a. student
 St. Francis hospital in Hart
 the guest of her sister, Mrs.
 Gan1ey, of 356 Black Rock
 ker the weekend.