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The Press., 1922-10-19
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 Presently he bumped up against a door, turned the knob and entered. He stumbled over a chair and received & blow in a kneecap that produced an- other growl.
 That's funny; don't remember leaving chair in front of the door. But then I didn't expect-''
 Keep perfectly motionlessr r' said a soft, sweet voice in peremptOry tones. If you budge I'll shoot '" Against his temple cold object was pressed; so Jim remained as motion less as he could with his legs wab- bling erratically
 "Auntie" called the sweet voice. "Please call the police. I've caught a burglar"
 From another room came a faint cry of consternation, then a scram- bling sound and presently Jim heard another feminine voice summOning the police.
 "Now sit down!". Jim was ordered, and he sat. That cold object had been removed from his temple, but he could feel it boring into his ribs.
 Bring me some rope, auntie!" his captOr called next. and when these instructions had been obeyed, Jim was bound securely on the chair.
 The woman who held him captive was almost invisible in the darkness, only faintly could he descry her, but it was rather diminutive person. She drew another chair close to- the one in which Jim was seated, and settled herself there while the weapon in her hand continued to rest against the prisoner.
 Jim was perspiring profusely, al- though he felt cold wave permeate him now and then. This was q terrible predicament. She thought he was a rohber, the police were summoned and were now on the way and-and that gun might go off at any time. Con- found it! Why did they let women keep guns? And why had he let him. self blunder into the wrong apart ment?
 He decided his only escape was an explanation, but how could he explain while this woman held a gun against him and threatened to pull the trig- ger if he offered to break silence?
 "If you'll let me explain" he be- gan.
 "Silence!" said the soft voice, and the pressure of the weapon became stronger. Then she called:
 "Auntie, are you sure there are no candles? Better look again"
 Sure" was the reply. I looked"
 Then the lights came on.
 Jim blinked and lOOked-intO the eyes of soft, fluffy, velvety Mazie Holmes, who held the handle of a table fork against his ribs.
 Good gracious!" she gasped. tits Jim! ,Auntie, call off the police and then come here and meet Jim" And to Jim she explained:
 "Tve been staying with her the last few nights. She's so fussy-afraid of burglars, you know"
The Press., 1922-10-19
WOMEN IN VARIOUS TRADES
Fair Sex Has Travelled Far From What Was Considered Proper in
 the Victorian Era.

There are today in New York state 789 women in the building trades in cluding women carpenters, electmcians, house painters, glaziers, paper hang CTS, plasterers, plumbers, and even stone cutters. There are also women working as common laborers for the railroads.
 We have had factory workers. to be sure, for long years, but in the past they have been chiefly employed as Semi-skilled operators in clothing, tex tile and similar industries. Today, New York state boasts 2,61O in lum- Der and furniture work; 6,302 doing semi-skilled tasks in steel and iron and 3,217 working among the other metals; while 1,1O7 work in clay, stone or glass The combined list of mill workers and skilled operators runs considerably more than 100000 for the state.
 Such tasks are not so anti-VictOrtan as quarrying, mining, stevedOring, of course, in which women are also en- gagged, but they are still far cry from the kitchen stove, the parlOr dust cloth and the nursery.-FlOrence Guy WOOlstOn in the New Republic.
The Press., 1922-10-19
IMPORT BEADS BY BILLIONS
Demand for Those Ornaments by the Women of the United States
 Seems Unsuitable.

Ballots and beads must belong to- gether in the mind of the modern wom- an. At any rate, ten strings of beads are worn today when one was worn before the war and before the vote. Beads by the billions are being i'm ported. This years record promises to run far ahead of last years, and last years record was worth a glance.
 To make any comment upon the ad- vanced and emancipated WOman's in- terest in the ornament that is usually set down as a South sea savage's no tiOn of an all-but-cOmplete costume is quite unnecessary. The figures speak for themselves.
 From central Europe, from France, from the shores of the entire Mediter- ranean, from all Judea, from the three great countries of the Far East, the making of beads for the United States is big business, declares a New York Sun writer. Not satisfied with the quantity that can be turned out with everybody working at the job of dec orating the dresses and the hats and the shoes of millions of American WOm- en, the demand for something differ ent has made the best dealers set the very South sea savage to scraptng up the seashells from the shores of lonely isles that are all but lost on any average map.
 To the national bill for tire ma terials could be added the cost of all imported cigarettes and then the total would be S35,OOO,OOO short of meeting the total outlay for feminine orna- ments. In spite of the increase in the amount of coffee imported, the cup that cheers America at breakfast time costs far less than the beads that women wear About $66,OOOOOO less. The comedy continues throughout the whole list of life's lesser luxuries.
The Press., 1922-10-19
locomotive From Scrap Iron.

Working for eleven years, with file as his only tool, man in Buenos Ayres has made a miniature locom0- tive of scrap iron. The locomotive can be operated under its own power by the use of compressed air. The irCn was not heated in the making. but was worked cold. A small coal tender and passenger coach were made at the same time and the whole thing Is Il little more than six feet in length and weighs TO pounds. More than 1900 screws and 2OOO rivets were used in the work. The train Is complete to the last tiny detail and Is built on the model of the equipment used on the British railroads of that country.
The Press., 1922-10-19
Original Meaning of T. H. S."


 The inscription "I. H. s." was originally the Greek letters, ''iota," "eta" and ''Sigma," the first three letters-or, aH some authorities say, the first two and the last >letter--of the Greek word for Jesus" In later years the origin of these letters hay ing been lost, they were miSta for the Latin capitals, "l. II. s. and a Latin word was found for each letter as follows: Jesus lI0mimum SHI' d. tor" Latin for "JesuS, Savior of Men,"
 This anagram k said to have "rigi mated with St. Bernardne of SirnA in 1347. According to other authorities, the letters are the initials of the words, 'In Hoe SignO," Latin for "In This Sign" miracul0usIN displayed in the sky before Constantin" and his army.
The Press., 1922-10-19
Chewing Gum Gave Him Away.

A gob of chewing gum has disrupted g family. In a recent divorce case the wife, who was suing, testified that she was sure that her husband was un- faithful, but did not know for certain to which one of several charmers he was paying attention.
 One morning she found gob of gum that he had been chewing the night before when he returned home late. In the lump of gum was the fatal red hair. She caused watch to be placed on the woman who had locks to match the hair she found and discovered that her husband was a frequent visitor at the red-head's apartment and got divorce in rec ord time. Talk about your detective stories, what 8 plot !-Portland Ore gonian.
The Press., 1922-10-19
TELL OF PREHISTORIC TIMES
University of Chicago Professor Reads History in Specimens Thousands
 of Centuries Old.

Enormous ferns, gigantic Pushes and club mosses and strange-looking trees, many of them more than 100 feet in height and with needles of two or three yards length, and a host of in sects, among which huge dragon flies ] and cOckroaches apparently predOm- l mated, once inhabited a swamp at BraidwOod, H., according to Adolf c. Noe, professor of peleObotany at the University of Chicago.
 Professor Noe reconstructed this picture of the vegetation and animal life of prehistoric times from fossil No. 2, in the Braidwood district, fifty seven miles southeast of Chicago.
 1.-The BraidwOOd mine," Professor Noe stated. lis now the best place to find fossils in northern Illinois and has somewhat replaced the famous Mazon creek deposits ill popularity with collectors.
 "The coal is found at depth of forty-nine feet and directly above it Is a grayish shale which the miners call SOapStOne. and which contains round calcareous stones. If you crack these stones with hammer they split into half like a sandwich, and on the inside of each half you see the i'm pressiOn of fern leaves and other plants of the coal era. Also insects, fishes, crawfish and other small in habitants of land, water and air are found. but the plants are most pre- dominant.
 "A considerable number of plant spe- cies can be listed from BraidwO0d and we are able to reconstruct in our imaginatiOns lively picture of the vegetation of these long, bygone days.
 "There was once in BraidwOOd & swamp which stretched far east, west and south, and which was inhabited by enormous ferns, gigantic rushes and club mosses, and strange-lOoking trees which had needles of two or three yards length. Many of the trees of that time must have been more than 100 feet in height, as we can judge from the size of the trunk and leaves.
 ''The animal population of these sWamps contained small reptiles, am phibia, fishes and d host of insects, among which enormous dragOn-fiies and gigantic cOckrOaches seem to have been predominant There were no butterflies, no Warm-blOOded ani- mals, no birdlike reptiles, no flowers. Probably the only colOrs which living nature provided were green, brown, yellow and black. The sounds were the crOaKing of frogl:ke amphibia and the noise produced by cockrOaches and dragOn-flies; no singing of birds, no chirping of crickets.
 "A strange world! Of the enormous vegetable masses which fell into those sWamps the coal beds were formed and 1O0OOO,OOO years passed away be- fore man came and ultimately utilized again the sunlight and heat which had been stored up in these millions of tons of cOal''
The Press., 1922-10-19
Learnluu to Play.

Albanian children are playing for the first time since the beginning of the war and are being taught Amer. ican games. This has been made pos. sibIe by funds contributed by Ameri. ran children through the Junior Red Cross These children have never learned to play nor to laugh. but. every day now, outside the old parlla, ment building in Tirana, schoolboys may be seen playing prisoners base burn the city, duck on the rock, hop scotch and other games that have made the American children the brightest in the world.
 The girls indulge in all the gataes and frolics popular among their little sisters in America. During school hours they are taught also to sew, embroider and care for the sick.
The Press., 1922-10-19

SOIL, lLulIy, FeINety, cllnglng vine, but also she was pink-cheeked, grace fu!, smily and altogether charming. Against his better judgment, Jim just couldn't help taktng Mazie to lunch occasionally, and once he over stepped all hounds of reason and en- tertained her at d theater. When he got home he berated himself in harsh terms all the time he was undressing. and all night long he tossed and tum- bled and hated himself And in the morning went down to the office with q grouch against the world-and lost it when Mazie tripped into the room.
 Hence the quandary. Jims heart said. "Marry MaZie," and his common sense, bolstered by that long g-nour- ished desire for a capable, self-reliant mate said: Have a care; she's a Clinging vine"
 Of course, he did not know that he could marry Magic, but he believed she cared for him. Indeed. they were quite chummy," and twice Jim had been on the point of proposing, only to be dissuaded by the cold, calculat-
 
 good business man. He was rather nice looking himself, and, although he was not cOnceited, he was quite sure that Magic would have him If he pressed his case. Between you and me, he was right; she loved him, too
 Along came a two weeks vacation and Jim decided the opportunity was at hand to escape the clutches of the c1inging vine. He went fishing with friend dressed in old clothes, smoked strong tobacco, and had a rough rest When he returned he was confident that the spell Mazie had cast over him was broken.
 The night before returning to work he had dinner with the companion of the fishing excursion, and was invited to spend the night in the spare bed. The friend lived in a big apartment house all by himself, not great dis tance from the office.
 Seated in n comfortable chair, while the friend played music a Ia disc, Jim eagerly digested q paper. He had been separated so long from the busy world that news acted on his brain like DOT trrhouH" "'' "n enntr stomach,
 "That's the stuff !" Jim suddenly ex- claimed, in the midst of a grand opera concert. Here's a girl found burglar in her apartment, held a revolver against his ribs with one hand, called the police with the other, and brought about his arrest. That's the kind of a girl for you! Why can't get ac- quainted with one like that?"
 This brought Mazie into his thoughts and there were some peculiar disturbances in the region of his heart. Yes, -he loved Magic yet, but he wouldn't yield. If only she were not clinging vine!
 About nine o'clock Jim became thirsty and went out in the hall for drink of water The friend kept supply in the refrigerator, which was located in the hall, and Jim went after 1t himself, not wishing to disturb his host, who was preparing a fish dinner in the kitchenette.
 Jim obtained his drink and started back to the apartment, and just then the lights faded out.
 There go the lights again." he growled as he felt his way along the hall. Il wonder If the power company will ever be in shape to carry it's load? About once a week they fall down on
The Press., 1922-10-19
Fascinating Old Cop.er.

The Jewish people. by reason of their religion, have always held their copper household utensils and brass candlesticks in loving regard. Their use of copper cooking pots dnte$ Jack to that ancient time when they were commanded by God to place II" iron on the fire of the Altar "f Stones whe. the tabernacle was raised in the wilderness in 1he time of Moses. il> furnishings were of gold. liver and copper. (In the King James vrrsi"i "f the Bible It reads Gold. silver, an1 htaSS." but in the Hebrew trvf M reads "GoId, silver and tOpprr.D" Nj. Holden !n Country Life.
The Press., 1922-10-19
Corncobs.

COrncobs are being turned into au. tomObile fuel, also hard rubber sub stitute for phonograph records pipe stems, varnish, buttons and electrical parts.
 This commercial alchemy happens not in Germany, famous for it's utili. xatiOn of by-products, but right here in America. Ii is the result of six years of research by la Forge and Mains. chemistry experts of the De partment of Agriculture.
 Chemical engineering iS one of the biggest fields open to young men to. day. It is the modern Aladdins lamp.
The Press., 1922-10-19
Norweoian Cooperative Bank.

A new bank called "Bondernes' (farmer's) bank, has been organized In Christiania, Norway, by a combina- tion of savings banks, cooperative as. sociatiOns and farmers. The author ized capital stock is $4,2O0,0O0 and 1t begins business with $26S0,O0O.
The Press., 1922-10-19
Numbering German Students Hair.

Numbering German Students Hair.
 Professors who (according to dis patch from Berlin) recently counted the hairs on the heads of an entire class of men and women in Munich university, must have been endowed with remarkable patience. The ar duous research disclosed that the men had from 10000 to 5O,OOO hairs i; the women from 6O,OOO to 7O,OO0, Counting at the rate of one hair 8 second, 1t would take one professor more than 19 hours to number 10000.
The Press., 1922-10-19
seeds az Source of Wealth.

Although there are. number of pro ductive sources of vegetable oils used in the arts and in the manufacture of food products, investigations by the United States Department of Agricul- ture indicate that valuable edible oils may be obtained in paying quantities from waste products and from seeds, such as the sunfiower, not yet grown to any great extent in this country At the present time the principal sources of vegetable oils are fiaxseed, cottonseed, soy beans, corn germs, peanuts, palm, rape seed, tungnuts, mustard seed, sesame, caMEOr beans and olives.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-16
SARGENT HAS
BEST OF SELLS

Buck Sargent, East Moline's verr
satiIe fireman, easily won deci-
sion over Bum Sells in the Ground
main go of the Knights of Pythias
boxing carnival in East Moline last
evening. Coming together in the
first round Sargent lost his bal
ance and stayed down for the count
of four, but in subsequent chapters
there was no question as TO his su-
periority over his rugged opponent.
Constant jabbing by Buck left
Buns face in a swollen and bruis-
ed condition.
Young Caeser won from Lorette
in four rounds and Battling Dick
had a shade over Kid Fulcher.
Butch Baecke got a decision over
AL BoomerShine on a foul. After
knocking Baecke down AL lost his
noodle and swung at Butch, where
upon Referee Ed Mulleon gave the
fight to Baecke.
The carnival attracted a crowd
that flled Castle hall to capacity
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-16
AUTOS PERMIT
NDULGENCEN
SPORT EVENTS
Public. Still knolOs
Holu to Use its
Legs.
BY WALTER CAMP.

The tendency of the times is well
illustrated by an editorial COM
ment appearing in one of our con-
temporaries on the disgrace of
walking" in which the writer sees
no possibilities of a moving side
walk for the populace and other
devices to render pedal locomotion
unnecessary.
1t is possibly true that posses
sion of an automobile has rendered
ordinary walking as it used to OBJ
tain out of date But there is an
answer to this in the greater de
velopment of sports for thousands
of those who ride to the golf
courses in motor cars and play IS
holes, or to the tennis courts and
play five sets, or partake OF some
other form of sport are, after all,
making pretty good use of their
legs.
In other words those who picture
THE next generations as withou!
legs are forgetting that indulgence
in sport has in a great measure
taken the place of walking among
! classes who possess cars.
{ Ted Ray and Abe Mitchell, com
! ing through to the final in the
Glen Eagles tourney, was really
verifcation of form as revealed fol
/ the past two or three years here
and abroad
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-16
MANY RECORDS
ARE EXPECTED
AT TRACK TEST
Competition at Chicago This Week
to Be Stiff With "a Col
leges Entered

Chicago, June 16.-With 800 ath-
letes representing SO institutions
here for the second annual track
and field meet of the National Col
legiate Athletic association tomor-
row afternoon, competition is ex-
pected to be the keenest Stage field
has ever witnessed. Preliminaries
are being held today.
Because of the stiff competition
of each event, many records made
last year are expected to go by the
boards without much effort on the
part of the participants. Illinois,
California, and Notre Dame alone
have individual stars who have
bettered three-fourths of the
marks which now stand.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-16
HANDS BETTER,
DUNDEE PLANS
CAMP AIGN
1s0- Pound Champion Coming West
In Great Shape for Clash With
Charlie White

Johnny Dundee. the 130-pOund
of the world and persist
emf challenger fer title bouts with
Johnny KiIbane and Benny Leon
ard. who is billed to meet Charlie
White of Chicago in Rock Island,
June 81, intends to begin adding
knockouts to his record Of victor
les.
AS result of treatment Johnny
received from Bonesetter Reese the
noted specialist of Youngstown
Ohio. his right and left hands are
as strong as they ever were TINS
has led the sensational Scotch Wop
battIer to determine to go after his
opponents with kayo punches.
Dundee, who has $4,000 in cash
posted with the boxing commits
sion of New York to box Johnny
Kilbane to a decision and whose
challenge has been recognized By
the boxing soIons. now plans to
force the featherweight champion
to Accept his challenge or relinquish
his title. In the meantime, how
ever. Dundee is ready to defend his
130-pound championship belt any
time Tex Richard, donor OF the
9
belt. will arrange a match
Johnny has been criticized IN
certain quarters for not defending
| his own title, but it seems that no
one has really come forward in the
proper manner and laid claim for a
| chance at him, although . number
| of them have issued challenges
through the papers. dckard was
willing to stage a bout for Dundee
with either Leonard or kilbana, but
has not approached Johnny with
/ anything in the way Of a PROPOSE
ton to defined his title.
| Dundee has fought in Madison
Square Garden four times since
last November His opponents
have been Willie Jackson, Joe Ben
jamin, Charlie White and Lew
| Tender. The only decision against
him in these four hard starts was
that awarded to Tender on May 8
But one need only refer to the com
plete accounts of that scrap %
/ learn that Johnny made Lefty Lew
travel a hard pace for every one
of the Is rounds.
Tri-city fans are anxiously
awaiting their chance to see this
great little performer in action
They have read reams and Teams
about him in the last several years
but have never had the privilege o.
seeing him here.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-16
SAM JONES is
GREAT PITCHER
BUT CAN'T WIN
BY JOHN B. FOSTER

Copyright, 1922, by The Argus-)
New York, June 16.-Sam Jones
of the Yankees is called the mys-
terry pitcher of the big leagues this
year. Batters who face him say he
pitches better baseball than some
of the other Yankee pitchers. Yet
Jones has become the steady loser
of the champions. How he pitches
so we'll and doesn't win is the mys-
terry part.
When the Yankees obtained him
from the Boston Americans the
baseball wise men said that his
transfer to New York simply put
the pennant right in the grip of the
two colonels-
Most of them who expressed that
soothing optimism believe shat
Jones at the bottom of things was
about the best American league
pitcher, needing only opportunity
such as he would have with New
York to demonstrate. But Sam can
| not make out either for himself or
his friends. Luck soured on him
May Is when Detroit heat him 6
| to /, beginning to hit freely at the
start of the game. On May 20 he
! had the game in hand apparently
when the ninth began and ST. Louis
| fell upon him for seven runs when
none should have scored. That was
bitter. On May "a he appeared &c
/ be Jogging to victory and Wash
| ington poked him in the ribs twice
in the seventh and once in the
! eighth. Down again. On May q
! Washington came back with a per
Torrance almost identically thu
same. Three runs were made II
/ the eighth by the Senators, tying the
score and they won in the 10th. OF
June 8 he was tied with Boston bu
| the Sox made four in the seventh
and eighth and won On June 8 thu
champs were leaning in the seventh
but the Cox combed Jones and be
fore they were through had mad
seven runs On June IA Detroi
began early and took the gam
away in the first.
Can't Hold Lead.
In five out of seven starts Jone
hasn't been able to hold lead AM
has been swatted in one of TIL
last three innings. That's about al
there is to the mystery. He can
not stop the opposing batters.