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The Glenwood post., 1922-08-17
"where9" she asked, although she

WHERE! Sic aSkeQ, alCnOOgh she
knew.
South America. Central America,
Mexico. Panama" He searched his
memory. Colombo" he superadded.
"My!" said Lulu. She had probably
never in her life had the least desire
to see any of these places. She did
not want to see them now. But she
wanted passionately to meet her com
panion's mind.
Its the life" he informed her.
"Must be-" Lulu breathed. ~
She tried, and gave it up.
where you been mostly?" he asked
at last
By this unprecedented interest In
her doings She was thrown into pas
sion of excitement.
Here" she said. "Tve always been
here. Fifteen years with Ina. Before
that we lived in the country"
He listened sympathetically now, his
head well on one side. He watched her
veined hands pinch at the pies. "Poor
old girl" he was thinking.
SIS it Miss Lulu Bett?" he abruptly
inquired. COR AIrs.?"
Lulu flushed in anguish.
Miss" she said low, as one who
confesses the extremity of failure
Inen, from unplumbed depths, another
Lulu abruptly spoke up. 'From
choice" she said --
He shouted with lauphter
"You bet! oh, you bet!" he cried
Never doubled it." He made his
palms taut. and drummed on the table
"Say!" he said.
Lulu glowed, quickened, smiled. Her
face was another face.
(Which kind of Mr. are you?" she
heard herself ask, and his shoutfngs
redoubled. Welli Who would have
thought it of her?
"Never give myself away" he as
sured her. ."Say, by George, 1 never
thought of that before! There's no
telling whether a mans married or
not, by his name!"
ut don't NATTER" said Lulu.
"Why not?"
A"e ~ many pCoplc Wuul "
know"
Again he laughed. This laughter
was Intoxicating TO Lulu. No one ever
laughed at what she said save Her
bert, who laughed at her. go 1t, old
grill" Ninian was thinking, but this
did not appear.
The child Monona now arrived
banging the front gate and hurting
herself round the house on the board
walk, catching the toe of one foot in
the heel of the other and blundering
forward, head down, her short,
straight hair Tapping over her face.
She landed flat-fsoted on the porch.
She began to speak, using a ridiculous
perversion of words. scarcely articu-
late, then in vogue in her group. And,
Whose dog?" she shrieked
Ninian looked over his shoulder,
held out his hand, finished something
that he was saying to Lulu. Monona
came to him readily enough, staring,
loose-lipped.
"1'll bet I'm your uncle" said Ninian.
Relationship being her highest
known form of romance, Monona was
thrilled by this intelligence.
Give us a kiss" said. Ninian, find
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toward the house. He managed to
make the job last over so that he could
return in the afternoon He was not
conscious of planning this, but it was
in some manner contrived for him by
forces of his own with which he
seemed to be cooperating without his
conscious will. Continually he glanced
toward the house.
These glances Lulu saw. She was a
woman of thirty-four and Di and
Bobby were eighteen, but Lulu felt for
them no adult indulgence. She felt
that sweetness of attention which we
bestow upon May robins She felt
more.
She cut fresh cake, filled a plate
called to d. saying: "Take some out
to that Bobby Larkin, why don't youT
1t was Lulu's way of participating
1t was her vicarious thrill.
After supper Dwight and Ina took
their books and departed to the Chau-
tauqua circle. To these meetings Lulu
never went. The reason seemed to be
that she never went anywhere.
When they were gone Lulu felt an
instant liberation. She turned aim
lessly to the garden and dug round
things with her finger And she
thought about the brightness Of that
Chautauqua scene to which Ina and
Dwight had gone. Lulu thought about
such gatherings in somewhat the way
that futurist receives the subjects
Of his art-fOrms not vague, but
heightened to intolerable definiteness,
acute color. and always motion-mo-
tion as an integral part of the deslr-
able. But a factor of all was that
Lulu herself was the participant, not
the onlOOker. The perfection of her
dream was not impaired by any long
ing. She had her dream as saint her
sense of heaven.
'Lulle" her mother called. "You
come out of that damp"
She obeyed, as she had obeyed that
voice all her life. But she took one
last look down the dim street. She
had not known 1t, but superimposed
on her Chautauqua thoughts had been
her faint hope that 1t would be to-
night, while she was In the garden
alone, that Ninian Deacon would ar
rive. And she had on her wool chally,
her coral beads, her cameo pin. :.
She went into the lighted dining
room. Monona was in bed Di was
not there. Mrs. Bett was in Dwight
Herbert's leather chair and she lolled
at her ease. 1t was strange to see this
IIy nd
now actually lolling as II lolling were
the positive, the vital, and her ordl-
nary rigidity negatlon of her. In
some corresponding orgy of leisure
and liberation, Lulu sat down with no
needle.
"1nie ought to make over her de-
luine." Mrs. Bett comfortably began.
recalled other delaines. Dear, dear"
said Mrs. Bett, 81 had on delaine
when l met your father" She de-
scrlbed II. Both women talked freely.
with animation. They were individuals
and alive. To the two pallid beings
accessory to the Dencons' presence
Mrs. Bett and her daughter Lulu now
bore no relationship. They emerged,
had opinions contradicted, their eyes
were bright.
Toward nine o'clock Mrs. Bctt nm
bounced that she thought she should
have lunch. This wns debauchery
She brought in bread and butter, and
dish of cold canned peas She was
committing all the cxcesscs that she
l;re@ olering opinions, laughing. eat
Ing. 1t wns to be seen that this won.
The Glenwood post., 1922-08-17
Always on Full Time

Mills may starr and mills may stop,
but the divorce mill rcns on forever.
Boston Transcript.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22

1ADE has recently become fashionable in
q this country, and at jewelers. shops and
stores Of dealers in articles de luxe one can
buy bracelets, cuff buttons, scarfpins. belt
buckles. charms, ETC., of this material. A
fairly decent string of jade beads may be had
for as little as $1,000.
It's expensiveness probably has more to do
with the new popularity of jade than any
thing else. To the untutored eye it is not
specially beautiful. One must be educated
up to an appreciation of it.
In the Orient it is held in extraordinary
esteem, particularly in China, where it has
been sought so eagerly that accessible de-
posits of it have been almost worked out.
Most of the jade used in China today, or
exported from that country, comes from
Burmah and Turkestan. There are also rich
mines of it in New Zealand.
Jade is blue, green, yellow, black and
white. Practically all of the White comes
from Turkestan. The center of the green
jade carving industry is Canton, where it
employs 10. 900 workmen. No machinery
is used, the work being all done with hand
tools.
Jade in China is indispensable to official
dignity. Persons employed in important ca
pacities under the government wear it as
part of the conventional regalia appropriate
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22

is secured with a set screw. Its upper end
is made fast to the .'pant" at the level
of the crotch with a spring clip. The tailor
or ones valet, if provided with the appar-
atus, could do it as well-then takes In
hand a short metal bar which carries on
its end a roller with a. V-shaped groove.
The bar has a rubber sleeve, for %grasping.
and is attached to an electric cord. When
the current is turned on, the roller is
heated, and, being run up and down the
edge of the rod inside the trouser leg (Which
it is made to ft), it quickly produces the
requisite crease-the roller, it will be
understood, being applied on the outside
Of the cloth.
This accomplished, it only remains to
transfer the rod to the other trosssr.ieg
and repeat the operation. A modification Of
the device is adapted for creasing the arms
Of a coat, making 1t possible for a man to
have his entire suit passed on him.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22

Upon the floor /of the tray. held BY a
cleat, rests inverted a washbowl, the bottom
of which. when the apparatus is shut, is
accommodated by a corresponding space in
the vertical section-iy e., the outer part Of
the door.
Beneath the inverted bowl Is a box for a
cake Of soap. At one side Of the tray is a
compartment to hold a box Of backing and
g dauber. Along the front edge Of the, tray
il Al compartment for soiled towels. The
washbowl, when wanted for use. is sremoyed,
from the tray and attached to the outer edge
Of the latter BY q bracket
The vertical lection has compartments
for a blacking brush and ! clothes brush.
Its upper part Is provided with a shelf for
q hnirbrush etc., and over this shelf drops u
flap Of rubber cloth to which q small mirror
is fastened. g
IN camp, Or aftett repair work on the
road, the motorist opens the door Of the
car, presses I spring latch which releases
the, may section from the outer psrt of the
door. swings the tray downs-on it, hinges
until It's weight is supported by4th chains,
takea out the wsshbowl, and secures ii 10
the bracket. He has then ut hand al con.
yeniences for washing up anl otherwise
making himself presentable. When through
he puts the howl back III III place. lifts the
tray u the vertical, snaps tha spring catch
and tho whole affair dlsappeArs from visx.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22

ing through the sand beneath the slab. If
this velocity were too great, it would lift
the slao and break it but with a slow flow
1t cannot exert much pressure.
The cost of the whole job was $3.50, 900.
AS a result Of this difficult achievement,
$1,000 acres Of land will be irrigated, Of
which $4,000 are owned BY Indians. 1t
marks the first important step in a great rec
lamation project for the Gila Valley, which
was irrigated by the ancestors of those In
dians long before Columbus discovered
America. The next step is to be the dcvel-
opment of a large water storage reservoir
by the construction Of the proposed San
Carlos dam. When the foods Of the ella
are thereby checked and controlled. the VAL
ley will become a rival of its neighbor, the
Salt River Valley, which, irrigated from ths
artificial lake formed by the Roosevelt dam,
is called the Garden of Allah.
incidentally. the Nation will repay part
of its debt to. an aboriginal tribe whose hands
have never been lifted against a white man.
In quarrying for material for the dan, a
vein of silver was opened up, and the struc-
ture as it now stands contains considerable
quantities of rock that runs as high as $500
a ton in the precious metal.
1T is an interesting fact that the dam here
described is of the earliest type known to
history. Thousands of years ago, on the
Nile and the Euphrates, the bottoms of
which have no rock to serve as foundation.
dams Of similar pattern were erected by
floating them upon the sands of the
river beds. M.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22
Menace of Dust Explosions

THE problem OF dust explosions in -four
i mills and other industrial establishments
is now exciting serious attention for the
first time. The Canadian Government has
undertaken to cooperate with our own ad-
ministrative authorities in the matter, and
some of the States have individually taken
it up.
\ Public interest in the subject may be saio
to have been brought to a focus by the great
disaster at South Chicago, when the Norta-
western Elevator, the largest in the world,
was blown up with a loss of six lives and
more than So, 900, 900. 1t was built of
concrete, with a capacity of 10, OOO, 900
Bushels, and was deemed SO safe that the
owners refused to insure the structure. Yet
a mere spark communicated to wheat dust
reduced it in a moment to a heap of ruins.
Until very recently it was not realized
that an explosion could result from such n
cause. BIT it is noY known that any kind
of dust, if composed of combustible ma
terial, may, if distributed through air, be
as dangerous as so much gunpowder. Dyna-
mite in large quantities could not have more
completely wrecked, the elevator in South
Chicago.
Wheat dust, sugar dust, the dust of corn
grinding mills, cork dust, coap- powder dust,
malt dust, even metal dusts, are equally
dangerous under similar conditions. Not
long ago a candy factory in Boston was
blown up by the accidental ignition of
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22

was to deliver to the river bed Temporarily
dry the greatest possible quantity Of con-
crete in the least possible time. Two cars
were operated on each roller coaster. apd
at one end of each of the two ovals was a
concrete mixing outfit. Each car in its
turn would back up to the mixer, receive q
load from a spout. and then run out to
drop the stuff into a hopper which dis.
charged it into a movable chute, the latter
delivering it to any part Of the slab. The
work was finished June . last, being rushed
day and night.
Upon the foundation thus created a dam
eighty feet high was afterward built. Bv
extending it's crest 12O feet into the north
bank a total "freeway' Of SIS feet was
obtained for the passage of water. Nine
regulator gates. lifted and lowered by by
draulic power, divert the water into a canal
forty feet wide. with a capacity of 1000
cubic feet Of flow per second. Water for u
smaller canal on the north bank likewise
controlled by gates) is carried through the
dam by a eemept pipe.
F.. At the up-river end of the slab rows Of
steel piles were driven deep into the river
bed, to break the velocity of the water fow-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22

ITO BE perfectly happy, the man who pays
proper attention to his attire must have
his trousers accurately creased. I'm order
that this necessity may be satisfactorily
met, a Delaware man, Herman S. Willis,
has invented Il creaser Of such efficiency
that a chappie, don't you know, can have
the operation performed without taking the
trouble to divest hinsself Of his pants. He
can drop in at the %tailor's and say, Put
a fresh crimp in these bags, old top!' and
the thing will be done for him in a few
minutes time.
The first essential Of the contrivance is
4 rod with one sharp edge which is passed
up inside the trouser leg in such a way that
the edge comedies with the crease in front.
Then the wearer Of the trousers inserts the
corresponding, foot beneath an arch shaped
piece Of metal which is screwed to the
floor. The lower end Of the rod fits into
socket on the tor Of the metal arch and
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22
Engineering
Triumph

THE. adoption Of a Coney Island idea for
1 engineering purposes has lent a touch
almost of the humorous to the construction
of a dam on the ella River, in Arizona,
which was completed the other day.
Nevertheless. the building Of the dam was
a wonderful achievement. a victory of
American pluck and engineering skill in Il
year-long battle with the ella.
The dam is twelve miles Above Che little
town of Florence, at a point where the river
cuts through n low granite ridge; the banks
being about 400 feet apart. There was no
rock foundation, and so, to make one, it wes
necessary to lay n. huge slab of concrete
upon the SAM of the stream bed. Anchored
into the granite walls at each side, ana held
by its own weight against the upthrust cf
water flowing slowly through the santls b.
meath it, the slab furnished q basis upon
which the dam could be erected.
The slab was in effect an enormous paving
block laid on the bottom of the river and
extending clear across it. BOG feet. from
bank to bank. Its up-and down stream
length was 212 feet, and it was from two to
Ave feet thick.
Once in place, the river in torrential
food would pass over the slab harmlcssly.
But to lay it was a race with nature, he
cause the job had to be accomplished be-
tween two rainy seasons only five months
apart.
To solve this problem, the engineers of the
Indian Service, to which the task had been
assigned, built Of trestle- work two. oval.
shaped roller coasters of Coney Island pat
tern, straddling the river bed. Narrow
gauge tracks were laid upon these. and for
cars four small trucks were used, with Il
dismantled automobile engine mounted OF
each one. Behind each of these odd vehicles
4 little dump-car was hitched.
The object of this ingenious arrangement
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22

powdered sugar used for Grating marshmal'
lows. Ignitible dust of any kind afoat IN
the air, it's particles in intimate contact
with oxygen, burns. if set on fire, with such
rapidity as to engender simultaneously u
huge volume Of gas, the expansion of which
in a confined space will rend the strongest
walls asunder.
The wheat bins of the South Chicago ele-
vator were built Of re-enforced concrete.
cylindrical in form, each Of them nine+J five
feet high nnd thirty three feet in diameter.
The explosion exerted its main force under
meath, lifting forty of them bodily into the
air and totally wrecking eighteen.
The last twelve dust explosions In this
country and Canada killed 1874 persons.
injured 200, and caused a money loss Of
SIG 00, 900.
The present method of handling grain at
elevators is exceedingly dangerous. 1t Is
important that dust collecting apparatus
fans. and pipes to suck it up and remove
it-should be installed in all places where
the dust, created by attrition Of the grain,
is liable to be clicked up"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22

17OR many years an observatory, under the
direction Of Professor JaggAr. has been
maiptained 1t the crater Of Kilauea, on the
Island Of Hawaii. for the study Of that
yoIcanoAremarkable because, while II aIl
diner fmanifesting 1 tremendous activity, II
NJ not exn1osiye.
II III believed that Kilauea's Ares come
ton j great subterranean pool" 50 to call
ii. 81 molten mateffal that has pushed IT.
way dp through the earth''s crust from ths
fpeones4ya5ly hot interior Of the globe.
Ezpeeriineaats, long contemplated, are now
~ lndertaken ~ boring deep holes down
'S46suprh tkssrocks In ~ neishborhood 81 TIE
4 II hoped ~ this nesss ytostlD
53ses q volcantc steam. which could ~
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22
Cinema OF
Sun Spots

On THE dome Of the proposed MussuM
" Of Sciencee, soon to be erected oppes'1s
the Lincoln Memorial in Wsshinseon' VIII
he mounted an arrangement OF TELESCOPES
and mirror called a. coelostat, wnlch WI
throw a large image of the sun upon .Se
white surface Of a circular table N tno
middle Of the rotunda below.
A clockwork mechanism will Keep ,tne
mirror always facing toward the sun, 80
that at all hours on a clear day It will throw
. reflected sunbeam through the telescope
tnbe to project the picture Of the solsrNoro
lnpon the horizontal Screen" a
The picture will be in effect a movie, inca
ssmuch as it will show the sun spots as. they
travel across the disk Of the giant luminary.
Which means that visitors at the new mu
sam will, actually sbe able to see the sun +
revolving on it's axis for It is the rotation
~ tho light giving orb that causes the
movement of the spots-just as would pc
the case with spots on an orange II you
were I'd turn it round and round with your
fingers.
The museum will specialize in apparatus
and exhibits designed to- demonstrate and
illustrate fundamental scientific facts which
folks ordinarily are obliged to accept on
hearsay. Thus, for instance, they get their
knowledge about the sun from what they
read. Most people are not even aware that
the sun does rotate on its axis. 1t Is a fact
with which science not very long ago was
unacquainted. .
Most people imagine that the sun is sta
tionary in the heavens. When the Rev. MIR.
Jasper, said, ''The sun do move it was
considered o capital joke. Yet nothing gould
be more true. Not only does the orb OF
day rotate on it's axis (requiring 600 days
for a single revolution), but it is travelling
straight ahead through space at a speed
we'll nigh inconceivable. Carrying with It
the earth and sister planets, 1t is pursuing
it's Journeys gigantic projectile, at the rate
81 twelve miles a second-twenty four times
the velocity of a rife bullet!
Astronomers call the sun a dwarf star. It
is indeed a tiny orb compared with a giant
such as Betelguese. Yet 1t is 1880, 900
times as big as the earth. Its diameter IL
S85, 900 miles. If the earth were represented
by a grain of mustard seed, the sun, on the
same scale, might be represented by a COCO
nut. For every acre on the earth there are
mioge than 10000 acres on the surface Of
4 the sun. $3.50
The moon is distant 100000 miles from
the earth. If the sun were a hollow ball,
and the earth were placed at its center.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22

the moon could revolve in the orbit it nov
follows and have plenty Of room inside the
pail to pursue it's accustomed track.
Ihe@sun is surrounded by an e~nvefope iof
burning gases that is probably at least
5000 miles thick. It's ~syrface, az seen
through a telescope, looks as if covered With
,whlte FORMS noatlng in an ocean of graylsn
mud. These are clouds, not Of water, but
composed OF droplets of liquid carbon. q,
al known substances carbon Oampblaek IL
pure carbon Is most resistant to heat. New.
ertne'ess; the tremendous temperature Of the (
sun vaporizes 1t, and 1t condenses to a liouid
only ct the surface Of the solar atmosphere.
When we consider that the entire surface
Of the huge orb is coated with such cloud.
every particle Of which Is intensely l,,rri'
NOUS, we need not wonder at tie dazzl;r.
brightness which, even across the rslf ~
S5,OOO,OOO miles that separates US from
the sun, produces for us the undergraduate
glory OF daylight. If this luminous veil wera
stripped off the sun. that celestial hodv
would lose its power to shed forth li.ht ana
heat.
We know that the sun is. on fire and thai
- : very AOLi Out we cannot even Annr0Soh
2 realisation Of the intensity Of its aam,n.
activity. On the occasion of a total ecl,n..
9 view at the luminary through i telescan.
shows around the edge Of it's disk a.. NJ
being hidden by. the moon) flames that 81.
to heights Of $4,000 and even 100. o0O ,nr..
above Its surface.
II you could start tomorrow M. -.
express train for the sun, and travel a.
and night ct sixty miles an hour. 4 wo,ia
taks yo'a 17b year, TO set there. The sun -
twelve miles q second, covers In eouaf ~
tance n three months. Yet Ii takes n. 1.
safteer years TO travel in Its stradxht ..hssd
y journey, . distancs equal to the di.mst..
Of the solar systena--or, Ia other worda 4.
diameter q ths orbit q ths soutermost
planet, Neptune. go
The star nearest TO- Us, Alpha. Centau,, /.
so fsf away that 1 ray 81 it, lirht TIA.
four and one third years to reach 81. ~
sun, y ~ were jnurneyiny toward hat 81,
would reaairs q, 900 Years 70 get Tiers.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22
Ready Cleanup Kit for Motorists

JAMES E. Robson, Of Denver, has hit
q Upon a new way to pack an automo.
bile cleanup kit. He makes a door of the
car serve as a box to hold the complete out
fit.
The idea is specially applicable to Ford
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cars. When the right-hand door is opened
at the front. Its inner face (separahle from
the outer face and, hinged to the bottom Of
the latter is dropped to tho horizontal and
becomes a tray. supported in that position
by two small chains.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22
Where Jade Comes From

to their rank: in the form of thumb-rings,
snuff boxes, and tubes to contain the feas
theirs attached to their hats.