The Washington times., 1921-09-16

The Mummy's Hand.
The Biggest Apple.
Fancy School Dress.
ATS B-r? Hardly.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. iss1.)

sAven 70 the Polytechnic Insti-
tute at Peoria, ILL.,. the hand of a
female Egyptian mummy, be-
iieved to be the hand Of Pharaoh's
daughter that rescued Moses from
the bullrushes and the water.
1t Is genuine mummy hand,
probably of a royal parsonage.
But nobody knows exactly which
Pharaoh or which daughter res
ccued the baby that subsequently
Drought down the tablets Of the
law. It would be interesting II
That withered hand had patted
the head of little Moses. but that
Is not the most interesting thing
In the news.
The MOST interesting thing is
the apple, "about the size Of a
one-gallon bucket" grown in the
noble State Of Washington by
Fred L. Post. That apple, still
on the tree, and growing, will
break all world records undoubt-
edly. Every boy that ever climb
ed, or threw sticks and stones
to get the last big red apple in
the fall. would like to see that
apple giant.
The monster apple teaches va
rious lessons. as it hangs, weigh
ing almost three pounds and a
half. The "Rome Beauty" tree
has been especially we'll fertilized.
Food is important to man and
tree. a slight leak in an irriga-
ton flume near by let's water con-
stantly drip to the roots.
More important, highly graft
flying to those. that urge birth
control and limitation, is the fact
that Mr.. Posts tree, which might
have borne hundreds Of apples,
carries only seventeen.
The others were carefully
picked away before they had
really started. AS q result, each
of the seventeen apples remain
ing, with plenty Of room, sun
shine, and air, weighs close to
three pounds, and the biggest
will be shown as the biggest
apple ever seen in the world.
The mother tree was not over
worked and therefore could do
her best. How big do you sup
pose the apple was that Eve
picked, alas the day?
Important to mothers is the
suggestion that girls in public
schools, high schools especially,
dress inconspicuously, and espe-
.cially ECONOMICALLY. It is
not a good thing for children in
school, whether six or sixteen
years old, to concentrate thought
on clothes and, the clothes of
others. It is discouraging, harm
full to poor children unable to
dress like their more prosperous
schoolmates.
An excellent thing for schools
and school children would be
some regulation. dress, simple in
cut and color, low in cost, with
in reach of the poorer children.
Richer parents should show
common sense by setting a good
example. In France, where very
poor school children are fed at
Government cost, the more pros
porous pay for what they eat in
school, but none is allowed to
know which pay and which do
not. That is democracy. Parents
that overdress their school chill
dren injure those children, plant
ing false standards in their
minds.
A horse has just trotted q mile.
driven by Tommy McMurphy. in
one minute and fifty-eight sec
onds, equaling the worlds record.
That would have meant a great
deal a few years ago to every
human being. Today it interests
only the few who knew Maud S,
Jay Eye See and Uihlein's great
trotter.
One minute and fifty-eight sec
pnds Is a trifle better than thirty
miles an hour. A horse can keep
lt up for one mile only and is
worth fifty thousand dollars. For
4 few hundred dollars you can
BUY an automobile that will 20
rs fast as that and faster, keep
ing it up all day and night. Mans
inventions beat nature.
The horse that made the rec
,rd is Peter Manning.
A Senator from New York and
, Representative from Michigan,
10Th Republicans, both try to le-
egalize feeble 2.75 beer, that It
nay pay ten or twelve dollars a
oarrel tax to Government, and
raise thousand million dollars in
revenue.
If manufacture and sale, apart
rom saloon retailing, Of such
'eeble beer were made legal,
many Congressman believe it
would solve the problem Of taxa
ion;> also the bootlegging prob
EN-. But it is not likely that
or years TO come any such legis-
alton will be passed. A citizen
nay manufacture 800 quarts of
vine, no limit to the alcoholic
trepoth. IN his own house That