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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
ODD FISH.
Some That Can Live Out Of Water for
Five DAYS

The angler, or fishing-fr with its
mouth almost as wide as its body is long,
is one of the veIy queerest of fishes. On
its back it has a number of thread-like
appendages, which other fish think are
the small organisms which form their
own food.
Before they have discovered their mis-
take they have fallen prey to the frog,
which does not miss much, with such a
capacious mouth. Its appetite, too, is
enormous; for in the stomach of one as
many as 20 behring's We're found
The sea-hOrse of Australia lives
among seaweeds, being camoufiaged by
a floating fringe resembling the weeds,
which enables it to lure its prey close
enough to be captured.
Another instance of camOuhage for
the sake of obtaining food is that of a
prawn and a small fish which live in
side the mouth of a gigantic anemone.
They are both white, with red lines, and
these colOrS act as a snare to numerous
small creatures which the anemone
kills, and all three have a share in the
spoils.
There is curious family of fish to
which the climbing perch of India be-
longs. They are constantly in and out
of the water, and often travel over land
In the rainy season they pass from
stream to stream, and from pool to pool.
When the hot weather comes they bury
themselves IN muu, from Wnlcn Jney
emit a gurgling sound. If put in an
aquarium they will escape if they are
not covered in.
The callicthys, found in the rivers of
tropical America and the West Indies
cannot live for more than a quarter of
an hour under water, and has to rise to
the surface to breathe. 1t has been
known to live for five days entirely out
OF water.
In South Africa waters swims a fish
something like a toad and rejoicing in
the name of billy-blow-up. This is de-
rived from its practice of putting itself
out when caught. Another of its pecu-
liarities is that of being poisonous.
Pilchads-to come back to our own
fish-haye a wonderful sense of smell,
and can detect a favorite food, consist
ing of the spores of olive seaweed, 20
TO 30 miles away, especially after spawn
ing, when they are thin and ravenous.
1t is a curious fact that, if food is
abundant, the fish appear IL shoals; but
when it is not particularly plentiful,
they do not arrive in such great num-
bers, as if some instinct told them just
how far the supplies would go around.
Buffalo Express.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
BREEDING PEARL BUTTONS
Fisheries Bureau Brings ArtfuI Aid TO
tie Button Makers.

So ANXIOUS art the button makers to
perpetuate the supply of Il material in
dispensable to their industry that the
National Association of Button Manu-
facturers is cooperating with the Gov
eminent Fisheries Bureau in efforts to
propagate artificially the pearly mussels
IN streams and lakes of the Middle
West.
The Fisheries Bureau now makes a
regular business of rescuing millions of
fishes which each year are left stranded
in drying-up pools by the retreating over
flow waters of the Mississippi and Hi
nois rivers. Large numbers of them be-
fore. being restored to their native ele-
ment are inOculated with the larval
''glochidia'' of pearly mussels. The But
ton Manufacturers Association is fur
nishing men to help in this work.
During last October and November
companied for this purpose seven rescue
crews sent out from the fish matching
station at Homer. MINI. and nearly
100000 fishes were inoculated with
about half a billion glochdia. The latter
fasten themselves upon the gills of
the fishes tthiS accommodation being
/ necessary TO enable them to pass through
stage of their developement) and some
weeks later TO drop off. They quit the
| finny nurse and take care of themselves
thereafter.
The inoculated fishes We're liberated IL
| Lake POkegama. MINI. and ut several
places in the Mississippi River II is
worth while to all that only the spawn of
exceptionally fine varieties of muSsels is
used, such as the river mucket and Lape
Pepin mucket. The cost of planting mus
sells in this way is less than six cents per
| thousand Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
ANTIQUITY or WEAVING.
Curious CavewOman Probably Led to
First Woven Combs

1t Is likely that the art of weaving,
IN It's most elementary form, was prac-
Used long before men abandoned the use
OF animal skins for clothing, or perhaps
eXen before they adopted clothing at
all. No doubt II began with the inst
crude attempts OF primitive women to
weave twIgs into some kind OF object,
with no idea, probably. than mere
childish curiosity as to what the result
would be, or an equally childish desire
to keep their hands cmplOyd during the
long hours when the men were away ON
the chase.
After they had succeeded in making
baskets and similar articles, it probably
occurred to some bright cayewoman that
clothing might be made by weaving
some soft material like wool. To do
this it would be necessary to twist tufts
OF wool into long strands. Thus we have
the beginning OF spinning. And as the
strands of wool We're not stiff like tWlgs
it would be necessary to have a certain
number of them stretched taut between
poles or something in order to weave
the fabric. Thus we had the first lJom.
All this is surmise, of course, but it is
probable that the arts OF spinning and
weaving began in some such way.
In the Bible we find Job complaining
that the days of his life fly past as
quickly as the shuttle through the loom
"a very familiar complaint. 1t sug-
gesJS, however, JhaJ the WeaNeFs OF MS
time must have had considerable skill.
The weavers of the Middle Ages were
independent craftsmen, who were very
proud of their skill and put on consider
able airs. The Roman matrOns of the
patric!an class were very industrious
women and proud of their skill in spin
ming and weaving. On their great estate
they maintained large numbers of male
and female slaves, some of whom they
instructed in textile arts, so that every
estate had a sort of private textile fac
tory which supplied clothing for the
family and its servants.
In England the Romans are supposed
to have taught the Britons how to
make woolens. In any ease. they had a
factory at Winchester, which made
clothing for their legionaries, and this
| may be said, perhaps, to have been the
beginning of the industry in England.
The credit for founding the industry
in America seems to belong TO a number
| of Yorkshire families who settled at
Rowley, Mass, about 1888, and built a
/ fulling mill there in 1913, making cloths
| from both cotton wool" and "sheep 5
| wool Dry Goods Economist.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
DOYE'S HEAVEN.
This Writer Forecasts General DiSsat-
isfaction with His Geography.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has made
some very disquieting reports about the
future life. 1t appears that wide is the
gate and broad the way that leadeth to
eternal felicity, whereas the road to
Gehenna is straight and narrow. APP
parently it takes considerable ingenuity
to achieve eternal damnation. The old
| fashioned Byronie hero who for one rea-
son or another used to announce that he
was going to the devil, was biting off
/, more than he could chew. Sir Arthur's
/ own Professor Mariarty might perhaps
| be brilliant enough to lose his soul, but
! the task seems beyond the powers of the
| average man.
Thus there seems TO be some excuse
: for the young Clergyman whose presby
terry refused to ordain him because he
| couldn't give the location and bound
! aries of 1ophet. If even those who try
| TO go there can't find it, one can hardly
expect geographical exactitude from a
preacher who presumably is trying to
keep out. But any satisfaction which
the wicked may derive from the theory
! will be tempered by Sir Arthur's de-
seription of Heaven. Those who have
lived virtuous lives here below viii be
greeted at once by their friends where
as the evil must wait around in Heaven
like newcomers in a strange town, be-
friended only by some occasional kind
| ly angel" For those of us who think
of Heaven as a place where we shall
never nave TO see our 1rlenuS OF eafth
this puts quite premium on a bad life
Poorly mated husbands and wives,
says Sir Arthur, never meet in the here
after, but go their ways to find those
for whom they We're destined" Thanks
to the divorce courts, most of them are
able to do that here below and the evil
dence indicates that those for whom they
were destined are not always more sat
isfactory than the unhappy first choice.
There seems to be growing up a wide
spread belief in the sanctity of second
marriage, which is not wholly borne
ont by experience Sir Arthur says also
that in the next world each of us does
the work for which he is fitted; music,
science and literature consequently
flourish But what is to become of the
, uncounted multitudes, by no means all
of them on Montmartre or in Greenwich
Village, endowed with the aptitudes of
a subway ticket chopper but cursed by
, artistic ambitions? In the hereafter,
apparently, they will chop tickets.
That may satisfy eternal justice, but
, it is pretty hard on the unsuccessful ar
fists. For most of them get more salts
! faction out of futile efforts to be artists
than they could from the highest success
in ticket chopping. A proper Heaven
+ ought to allow everybody to do what he
! wants rather than what he can. One
feels an uneasy suspicion that Sir Ar
thur has missed something of the high
est Importance in his geography of the
hereafter. No doubt his heaven is easy
! to reach. but is he so sure it is really
Heaven New York Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
TO CLEAN LEATHER
Federal Recommendation for Removing
Grease Spots.

OTCdSe Spots
New methods have been developed to
remove stains from leather goods by the
bureau Of chemistry of the United
States department of agriculture Lea
Their goods that have been made I'M
slightly by grease spots and cannot be
cleaned by ordinary solutions can often
be restored by these new methods. When
shoes, travelling bags and similar art
icles come IN contact with butter, lard
vaseline, linseed oil salad oil or any
thing OF the sort, ugly stains are pro-
duced, especially if the leather IS OF
light color, and attempts to remove them
with gasoline or other ordinary grease
solvents result in spreading them.
The best method, according to the de-
partmeut, consists IN coating the leather
with a thick solution OF rubber III sol
vent that eyaporates readily and peellng
off the coating when 1T Is almost dry. In
some cases it may be necessary to repeat
the operation several times. A solution
of unVuleanized rubber para or Ceylon)
in carbon bisulphide, in the proportion
of one part to ten OF weight, as well as
some of the prepared rubber cements,
has been found satisfactory. 1t is i'm
portant that the cement be very thick
and quick drying and of pure solvent
Since the fumes of carbon bisulphide
are very infammable and poisonous, 1t
Is necessary 10 work away from names
and where there Is good ventilation. To
keep the rubber from adhering too
tightly the leather Immediately around
the spot may be wet slightly Just before
applying the rubber solution.
Milk produces spots on feathers on ac-
count of the fat it contains. In addi-
ton, it often leaves a white residue. and
sometimes a dark stain. The white resi-
due may be removed with soap and
wa n, but no way is known for taking
out the brown stain. The only way to
improve the appearance of leather so
damaged is to dye it darker than the
original color.
Any oil or grease spot should be re
moved as soon as possible. 1t is
especially important that spots caused by
linseed and other paint oils be removed
before the oil dries, since the Oxidized
oils are but slightly soluble in the liquids
ordinarily used.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
PECULIAR Rock formation.

All of the mountains Of Montenegro,
Bosnia, the Herzegovina and the Dali
matian coast are made OF a spongy
limestone rock through which water
seeps readily. Sewers are unnecessary,
for If one digs down for fifteen feet In
any part of the country one finds
natural opening, and anything thrown
into that opening is Immediately car
ried away. That is why no navigable
streams have ever cut through Dali
matia's mountain wall. The water
soaks through and doesn't need to cut.
Saturday Evening Post.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
AIR TAM SERVICE NOW.
You May Order Plane TO Meet Ship
When She Docks in England.

A passenger arriving in Great Britain
from overseas. who wishes to reach his
destination with the least possible de
lay. may now order an air taxi which
will be waiting for him as his liner
berthS This air service. which ii was
announced short time ago would be
run this year, to make connections with
the arrival and departure of liners at
southampton and Liverpool. is known as
the air taxi service. from its resemblance
to present methods of meeting trains at
railroad terminal.
These airpianeS may be ordered while
the liner is still far out at sea, the wire
less orders being picked up direct by the
wireless operators at the London air sta
tion and put into the hands of the pilots
within minute or two of being des-
patched from the liner In this way the
passenger may be sure there is an air
taxi waiting for him when his ship
docks.
New air taxis. to cope with the ex-
pected increased demand this year, are
now being built. according to a report
on commercial aviation in British
trade department bulletin Just received
in this country. They include two. three.
and four-seaters and fares are expected
to be as low as 10d. per mile per pas
Senger
Another development which has been
projected and which may shortly take
effect is the linking up of existing routes
with provincial centers such as Glas-
Cow. Liverpool, Newcastle. etc In this
sway airplanes would start from various
provincial centers ut times enabling
them to land at the Croydon Aerodrome,
so as to connect up with the present
cross Channel services On the CONT
nent. equally, there is a desire to extend
the present croSS-channel services to the
South and East.-New York Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
TAUGHT BY WINDSOR MAN.
Miss Hardy of Boston Instructed in
Decorating Furniture by Mr.. Ingles.

Decorating Furniture by Mr.. IngleS.
An exhibition of wood-carving, painted
furniture, small sculpture, pottery, deco
rative panels. chintzes, rugs and needle
work, and in each class original and IN
tereSting features Is made at the work
shop of Miss Mary Caroline Hardy, 102
Chestnut street, Boston. The exhibition
will remain open until May l.
Miss Hardy's work i'll decorated furni-
ture has long been familiar to Boston,
but it is interesting to learn how she hap
pened to enter this field in which she has
been so successful. Some years ago she
was attracted by the work in painted
furniture of a delightful old gentleman,
Henry William IngleS of Windsor, Vt,
who up there in the Vermont hills was
carrying on the secrets of decorating fur
niture, which had been passed down to
him from Colonial days. Fascinated by
watching him at work, Miss Hardy began
to study with him. and in his workshop
she learned the old receipts for making
the quaint designs which are still family
preserved on the old chairs and tables in
the antique shops or country farmhouses
today.
He taught her just what strokes of the
brush were necessary To make a rose or
grapes, how to fiji one-half of the brush
only with paint to get certain effects, etc.
| the old designs a character that no
amount of trying to copy them with other
methods can reproduce
Miss Hardy became so interested in the
results of these simple processes that it
occurred to her that the possibilities for
the development of the art. with all the
| advantages Of foreign travel and study of
| painted decoration at her disposal were
great. From that time on she has built
up a most interesting profession for her
| self and met with deserved success.
Working with her for the past 10 years.
/ besides other artists who have been with
| her from time to time. is little group of
| three craftsmen, Miss Josephine Zephler
/ Miss Muriel Du Nernet and Ernest Perry
whose careful workmanship in preparing
|. the furniture for decoration. in carpentry
! and cabinet work, III polishing. stripping
and carving, has made the results of Miss
! Hardy'S workshop pOSsible-Boston
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
CHOOSING 4 BIRTHDAY.
Many Eminent Persons Born in Winter
February the Richest Month.

An English investigator has exam
iued the birth dates of more than 200
eminent persons, with the idea of dis
covering whether there il a concentra-
tion of births in any one part of the
year. He found that the greater number
of persons on his list, which included
chiefly men of creative Intellect, were
born in the colder months OF the year.
February appeared the richest month.
Among sixty men of the highest rank
he found that twenty Three were bern
in the winter, fifteen in spring, fourteen
in the summer, and eight IN the autumn.
Even With a list OF 200 persons, the
results he obtained may easily be at
tributable to coincidence, particularly
as the difference between the warm and
cold weather outputs Of greatness Is
not a wide one, according to these fig
ures But if one Chances down the
birthday list Of the Presidents OF the
United States, the Investigators deduc-
tions find uumistakablc support.
1t would be a blind patriot who pre-
tended that all the Presidents of the
United States have been over-shadow-
inglv great men. Not half of them have
been that. but all have had qualities OF
distinction 1t appears that only seven
presidents were born in the months from
April to September, and twenty one
were born during in the other half Of
the year MAY. June, July, August and
September. taken together, can boast
only three presidents.
There is an interesting hot weather
Job for somebody with the patience to
take a longer list OF names than the
English Investigators and throw more
light on the relative value of hot and
cold weather birthdays. Possibly he
will 90 further and discover whether
June is a more propitious birth month
for poets or for eminent manufacturers
of hardware.-New York Herald.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01

is in fit condition to terminate the seed.
termination is rather slow. Rate of
planting is eight TO II pounds of seed
per acre Under average conditions, be-
cause of labor consideration, it is best to
plant in rows - to SO inches apart so
horse cultivator can be used OF course
the crop must be thinned after it has
started.
Mangels are harvested in the fall be-
fore heavy frost. Tops should be twisted
rather than cut off The tops are read
lily eaten by cattle. Mangels are aften
stored in pits in the field but for our
Vermont climate it is best TO provide a
roof cellar for their storage. Ten to II
tons of mangels may be grown on an
acre of land
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
yENOMOUs AMERICAN SNAKES
Few Persons Encounter the Dangerous
Reptiles4-Snake Bites Rare


Although the average mortality from
American venomouS snakes Is little
more than 10 per cent of the persons bit
ten. death from snake bites is quite
rare. because relatively few persons en-
counter or are bitten by the dangerous
species.
The most venomous of our native
snakes live in lonely, little settled dis
fricts. often on stony or swampy land
that cannot be cultivated. Usually they
diSappear at the approach of man. and
while they may strike if provoked. the
popular belief in respect to the distance
they can strike is erroneous.
Three-fourths of their own length IS
about the greatest distance possible. IL
the legs are well protected when one IS
going into deep woods or places known TO
be infested by rattlerS or other poison
Gus snakes there is slight chance of be-
ing bitten. r..
inc prpy they cannot be killed by poi
soned BATS The only method thus far
devised to kill them seems to be CLUB
bling or shooting This is best done in
early spring when they are still slug
gish after the winter Information. Al
lowing hogs free run of infested land
may reduce the number IF snakes. How
eyer. the popular idea that hogs are I'M
mune to snake bite is probably based on
/ the impenetrability by the venomous
| fangs Of their thick skin and fat layer
rather than on actual immunity OF these
animls.
| The varieties most commonly found IN
| this country are the Elapidae, or Harle-
quin snakes. and the Crotalidae, or PIT
( yiperS" which include rattlesnakes, cot
| ton mouth water moccasins and copper
| heads.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
Pollen Carried Far.

Wind-blown pollen Sulphur rain)
is known to be carried far. The Swed.
ish experiment station reports a quite
extensive rain of tree pollen on two
fire ships, twenty and thirty-seven
miles from shore, and the pollen OF
aIgae is known to have been carried
even as far as 200 miles.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
Old Woodwork Made Now.

A wood dye is a good finish for old
woodwork. If the old finish is I'M
satisfactory and you do not wish to
remove it wood dye may be put over
1t. There are a number Of different
shades made. A final finish Of an en-
amel makes the wood look as good as
new
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
Nature Looks After That.

1t has been estimated that at the
present rate of consumption the green
plants of the world would exhaust
the air of car5on dloxide In about
thirty years If it We're not constantly
being replaced.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
Inbreedino of Species.

In an experiment with GOO white
rats belonging to the sixteenth to the
twenty-fifth generations Of brothers
and sisters from the same litter. it
was found, says Science, that close In
breeding produced no deterioration.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01

While the old limitations of women 5
dress in Persia have not been thrown
aside. they have been greatly relaxed
and the women are increasingly care
less in covering their faces.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
Idle TO Borrow 1rou5Ie.

Sorrow comes soon enough without
dependency. 1t does a man no good
to carry around lightning rod to at
tract trouble.-Aughey.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
Old-Fashioned Kind.

Have you a noiseless typewriter?'
NO. she chatters good deal. "-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01

DIR. E. L. TRACY, Physician ana Surgeon. 2H
Main St. Office hours: s to =. %, to P. NJ,
Q 2S6
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

FRANK A SNOW, Violin Teacher. Tel
676-M. 10 Putuey Road.
GEORGE HOPKINSoN, n. D., Surgeon,
Eye Ear, Nose and Throat, Wardsboro, VI
Telephone connection.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-01

THOMAS RICE, NJ. D. Cutler Block. Office