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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10
SENATOR PAGE ENTERTAINs,
Has Five Legislators, All Over so Years
and Vice President at Luncheon.

WASHINGTON. May 10.-Six ma
tional legislators whose combined ages
cover a span of 4S4 years, or an aver
age of 50 % years per man. gathered
about the table as the guests of Senator
Carroll $. Page, of Vermont, at spe-
cial luncheon given Monday by the nes-
tor of the senate. in honor of Uncle
Joe" Cannon's S6th birthday.
The guests and the dates of their
birth were:
Congressman Joseph Quincy Cannon,
of Illinois, May z. 1896
Congressman Charles Manly Sted-
man of North Carolina, Jan %. 1S41
Congressman William Stedman Greene
of Massachusetts. April Is, 1871.
Senator Knute Nelson Of Minnesota.
Feb 3. 1913.
Senator William Paul Dillingham; of
Vermont. Dec. -. 1913.
The host, Senator Page. was born
Jan. 10. 1913
In addition to the octogenarians. or
neutrality-suspicious., a comparative boy
completed the assemblage
He was Vice President Coolidge, born
in Plymouth. VT, July 4. 1872.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10
SWEDEN COMING
BACK FROM ILLS
Swedish Krona Virtually At Par
Strong Tendency Toward Revival
I'm Industry.


STOCKHOLM, May 1O.-Sweden's
Of painful operations for postwar ills
is forecast in the official economic re
port of the Swedish foreign office com
merce department Just made public. Its
principal note of optimism is the Swed-
iSh exchange. After a year and a half
of defation and international liquida-
ton still under way. the Swedish krona
is virtually at par.
The government experts find that the
greatest obstacles to economic recovery
lie in the competition of countries with
deprecated currency and in the fact
that wages have not yet been sufficiently
reduced. Countries with low exchange
can dump goods in Sweden at prices
against which Swedish manufacturers
cannot compete. Likewise, in the for
eign markets. Sweden is severely handi-
capped becaise of her high exchange
rate.
The report states that there is 4
strong tendency toward revival in many
lines of industry but that the natural
process of building up is delayed by I'M
settled conditions in central and east
the uncompleted process of wage adjust
ment.
The foreign Office finds that during the
second half of 1921 and the first quar-
ter of this year there was observed n
slight increase in the activities of Swe-
denis basic industries accompanied by
expansion in foreign trade. especially in
timber, pulp and paper
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10
WANTS LOWER FREIGHTs.
President TO Ask Railroads to Make
Voluntary Resolution.

WASHINGTON, May 1O.-President
Harding has summoned IL of the lead
ing transportation executives of the
country, it was said yesterday at the
executive offices. to attend a dinner at
the White House May 20. to discuss the
rate situation.
1t is understood the President will ask
the transportation chiefs to consider the
possibility of adjusting railroad freight
rates downward as a voluntary matter.
because the interstate commerce commits
sion membership is said TO have decided
that it cannot legally compel reductions
TO an extent satisfactory to sections of
public and business sentiment
The administration. accordingly, is
said to have decided to resume again
the method of treating directly with the
railroad organizations to consider what
can be done in the way of a satisfactory
rate policy. Similar conferences were
held last summer and fall.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10
GREEN RIVER.
Death of Mrs. Eliza Frost.

The funeral of Mrs Eliza Frost, who
died May 3, was held at the home Sat
urdav afternoon at / o'clock, Rev. w.
H. Bishop OF West Guilford officiating
The burial took place in Greenfield,
Mass.
Mrs Frost whose maiden name was
Elizabeth Cook. was born June 27. 1890.
She married Charles Henry Frost June
20. 1860 The last - years of her life
We're spent in Guilford.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10


J. V Jacobs of Northampton Mass,
is visiting at w 4. Denisen's.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Frost and broth
er William Frost. of Worcester, Mass.
returned to their home Sunday.
Mrs Elisha Gates and son, Ray. at
tended the funeral of her aunt, Mrs
Abbie Barber. in Bernardston Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Miner of West
Leyden. Mass. were guests at Il. F..
Henry's and NJ. A. Thompson's the first
of the week.
Walter f. Page of Sheburne Falls.
Mass. has bought the Clisbee store
property and is making plans to put in
a complete stock of goods soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. r NJ. Creepar came
Wednesday from Eden. Mich. They are
staying at Mrs Elisha Gates's and MAX
ing some repairs on the Merrifield place.
Ontario is the worlds chief producer
ks ..~lrn : e. i
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10
Big Eaters Get
Kidney Troubles

Don't neglect backache, sore joints.
stiffness, puffy eyes. interrupted sleep. or
other signs of weak kidneys or bladder.
Correct the trouble while it is a trouble
with DIR. Carey's PRESCRIPTION No.
III Standard for over two generations.
Avoid dangers of serious complications.
Druggists guarantee first bottle. Sure
relief or money back. Get it at reliable
Sflruggists re.-Advertisement.
- sE
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10

WANTED-Two good laborers. c
NJ Vaetsch, L Linden St. Git
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10

WANTED-Roll top desk. Henry c.
Culver, 7S Main st. 61-63%
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10
WANTED.

WANTED-Laundress ct Melrose hos
pitaL Phone Dol as# 44-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-10

Ontario is the worlds chief producer
of nickel ari stt lrses sat4a
Evening star., 1922-03-19

mind at the start. In the character
study it is better-and usual-to have
a theme rather than a plot and to de-
velop it through the development Of
personality and the clash of motive
and character. After all, a story Is
but a cross-section of life. The books
1 enjoyed writing most were slices of
my own life. To write. one must live
in the heart of life"
From this, the conversation drifted
to the mad pace at which life rushes
by today. Mrs. Rinehart decried the
jazz atmosphere of tea and toddle In
which some young people are being
brought up.
when mothers tell me they can
not keep their daughters at home I
do not wonder. Can you call tiny
apartments piercing the sky, one on
top Of the other. homes?
while mothers are involved in a
maze of activities as objectless as
the milling of fish in a pond, the home
spirit is dying. We have too many
wives and mothers who board at
home today. What we need is inten-
sive home cultivation. Sometimes
think that We exhausted our small
stock of spirituality and idealism in
the short two years of the war and
have none left to go on with. We
are becoming a grossly material peo-
pie, and the church has lost some Of
its hold. 1t began to lose 1t when
it ceased to preach Of punishment for
sin. for, although it sounds a cynical
Evening star., 1922-03-19

three requests for advice on that sub
ject. What 1 reply is that the only
way to learn to write is to write and
write and write-never less than
thousand words a day, every day.
And then to rewrite and rewrite
and rewrite. 1 never sold a story
TO the best magazine until / began re-
writing twice. 1 never send out a
story or a newspaper article today
that has not been written first in long
hand, typed. rewritten entirely in
long hand, retyped. and oftentimes
rewritten the third time. Every
sentence. every punctuation mark. as
well as every deIineation of charac-
ter, receives a final polish.
writing is self-taught. 1t requires
endless patience and perseverance
and self-denia1.'
when you sit down to write a
story" the writer interrupted, have
sou the whole thing mapped out in
Sour mind?'
Methods differ with the type of
story. Roughly speaking. fiction
writing is of two sorts-the story or
novel of plot and the one of charac-
ter. For beginners / always recon-
mend trying the first method. since
a good plot is useful crutch for the
novice. The character story is Of a
higher grade and approaches and
sometimes reaches to real litera-
ture.
I'm the plot story it is necessary to
have the skeleton of the plot well in
Evening star., 1922-03-19
MONTE CARLO FURNISHES MANY TRAGIC
AND HUMOROUS GAMBLING. ADVENTURES

/ would go security for that rather
large bote. bill, Like Willy Cats,
the technicality on which they helA
him for few days was most fimsy
that of using his mothers family
name at the hotel. Now, he is out
on honor, as the noble English fam
| lily is arranging to square up.
x u 4:
NOW here is one last rumor. l have
- no desire to he precise and get
into trouble. Readers will peruse it
with peculiar satisfaction.
Since these Riviera ports have be-
come frequented by so many inter-
national warships every one can spot
a captain or commander in civilian,
clothes. One such. they say tnever
mind the nationality, went to Monte
Carlo casino as a mere spectator. He
had no money to risk and no desire
to gamble.
But there is a poison in the atmos-
phere-so say the losers. And the
captain Qet US call hin) had $4,000
francs of funds intrusted TO him for
a certain purpose.
He played and lost the $4,000
francs.
He was dishonored. He came to his
senses by moonlight on the terrace.
He had his ordnance revolver with
him. Wandering in the fairy scene.
he thought of all the suicides which
he had heard of in these lovely
gardens.
He raised his weapon, but he did
not pull the trigger He had an In
spiration.
! He sought the administration.
| Briefly he explained his case. Life
! held nothing for him, in view Of this
disgrace. His emotion was real. His
! confession was painful Yet. meeting
| but coIdness and indifference, he sud
denly changed his tone. Now he was
| naughty, curt and terrible.
Loss for loss he said. The act
| which / shall now commit is of little
| Importance to me. / shall go on board
! my ship. If in half an hour my $4,000
francs are not brought to me, word OF
| sailor, i shall blow up your casino
| and then blow my brains out"
| They might have arrested him.
! But Monaco is a tiny state and they
| dread international complications.
| They did not arrest him. He went to
his warship. Within fifteen minutes
a white motor launch was rushing
| through the moonlight waters toward it.
Two civilians mounting on board
saw a cannon being pointed. 1t was
long past midnight, and the casino,
white and empty of its lights and
public, stood on the terrace like a
great white cream pun.
| kindly verify the sum-" they said
as thsy handed out package.
Thanks very much; yes, quite
right" said the captain. counting.
"It is $4,000 francs: quite right"
will not guarantee this story.
Surely the captain never told it-and,
surely as surely. not the administra-
| ton.
Evening star., 1922-03-19
Spiders as WOrkrnen.
TN England there is a largo fact

TN England there is a largo factory
that produces surveying instru-
ments, and of the workmen there it
Is no exaggeration to say that the
spiders are most Indispensable. 1t is
their duty to spin the delicate thread
used for the cross hairs that mark
the exact center of the object lens
in the surveyors telescope.
Spider web is the only suitable ma
terial yet discovered for the cross
hairs Of surveying instruments. AL
though this fiber is almost invisible
to the naked eye, the powerful lenses
of the telescope magnify it to the
size of a mans thumb. Human hair
when magnified in the same way has
the apparent dimensions of rough
hewn lamp post. Moreover. human
hair is transparent and cross hairs
must be OPAQUE.
The spiders produce during a two
month spinning season thousands
of yards Of web, which is wound upon
metal frames and stored away until
needed. A spider "at work" bangles
in the air by it's invisible thread, the
upper end of which is attached to a
metal wire frame whirled In the
hands Of a girl. The girl first places
the spider on her hand until the pro-
truding end of the thread has become
attached. When the spider attempts
to leap to the ground she quickly at
taches the thread to the center of the
whirling frame, and as the spider
pays out his web she wraps it round
the frame. At one>time she removes
from SPIDER several hundred feet
Of thread.
The spiders are kept in a large
room under the supervision of three
girls and a forewoman. When the
little workmen are not spinning they
live in a large wooden cage. Flies
are their chief article Of diet. Dur
ing the winter months the spider
colony usually dies and an entirely
new crop of workmen must be re-
cruited. Not every spider will do
only large, fat fellows that spin a
tough, round thread will suffice.
The girls In charge of the spiders
are not in the least afraid of them.
On the contrary. they regard them as
pets, can tell them apart, and often
call them by nicknames that humor-
ously describe their appearance or
their peculiar habits Of work.
Evening star., 1922-03-19
European 'Tiipping" Ways

Eden, in Zurich. told me tho same:
Last week there was an American
family Of four here. 1t rained and
each one of them left out for me to
clean at least two pairs of shoes a
day. After week they went away
and gave the chambermaid 81 francs
and did not even look at me-"
This also may be an extreme case
of travellers brought up not to think
Of those who wait on them, and who
are all at sea when they have to tip.
Ny own experience this season at
Nice. which. as usual, is full of
Americans, is that very good service
can be made sure by any one who
treats those who wait on him like
human beings-that is. who pays
enough attention to recognize their
faces, and gives even moderate tips
to those he recognizes or knows to
have served him. Such one will
very probably get through we'll under
the 10 or IL per cent Of his bills it
is now proposed the landlord should
collect to take the place Of tipping.
Take, for example, your morning
breakfast, which is regularly served
in your room. Whether you have
coffee hot or only lukewafm will de-
pend on an overworked waiter who
has to run up to any number of other
rooms with breakfast trays. If he
feels that you appreciate extra care
on his part to satisfy you, then you
will usually be satisfled-and you
show your appreciation by your tips
or qualifications" to him personally.
For three persons paying 30 francs
a day apiece, inclusive (about $D.
and served together, a tip Of franc
a day for the three to the breakfast
server, If regular, will do the Job.
Hot coffee for three is worth cents,
surely.
I have just sympathixed with a
much-traveled American Army lady,
who tells me she always gets poorly
served. I do not wonder. Spasmodi-
cally she does now and then tip right
and left without much attention to
whom or for what she tips, and nat
urally those who stand and wait and
get nothing lose all interest in her.
THAT has been my experience In
America also. and there the minute
service of European hotels is not ex-
pected. -: -
Three big American hotel men
have been exciting curiosity In a Nice
palace hotel. One said. "The service
is 90 per cent good" This may mean
that he knew how to tip or the wait
ers were primed beforehand. I al
ways find it so, and do not believe
any combination with percentages on
hotel bills will make things better
or exempt me from the joyful act Of
tipping. STERLiNG dElL1G.
Evening star., 1922-03-19
NICE. March 9, 1922.
n HIS year the writer finds the old
crusade against tipping-and

IN HIS year the writer finds the old
crusade against tipping-and
for it-hotter than ever. Mean
while tipping goes on just as
it did when the French Academy de-
fined it "a qualification over and
above wages" Just now the syndi-
cate Of hotel, cafe and restaurant
workers demands the total suppress
sion and payment of fixed wages In
, stead. Tho Swiss hotel keepers
agree and propose an addition of Is
per cent to every customers bill for
the purpose. The French chamber of
hotel keepers opposes this on the
ground-"Our interest and our guests
interest demand these extra gratifi-
cations should be kept up-otherwise
walters. for example, would take no
interest in good personal service,
since they will be paid just the same,
anyway" The French add, with a
knowledge of their own and Ameri-
can human nature. Tipping would go
on just the same Also
Here is one of the seasons stories
told by a Frenchman. He had stop
ped his runabout at a crossroads tav-
ern, where the landlord with his
apron on served him. A beautiful au-
tomobiie drove up with a party of
Americans. They seemed very well
pleased with the Norman cookingand
paid their bill without remarks. But
before they rose to go away the Inn
keeper rushed to the Frenchman and
| asked excitedly, ''Who are those peo-
pie? I charged them 90 francs, and
| they have given the 'bonne' who
| waited on them 40 francs. Didn't I
| charge them enough?"
One of the Americans came up and
said. ''That old brandy you gave us
was very good. Won't you sell me a
| bottle?"
The incensed innkeeper drew him
| self up. Yes, but it's very dear
"How much?" asked the American.
zone hundred thousand francs"
shouted the innkeeper, who could not
get over the tip.
Mommsen, the German historian,
| when he was preparing new edi-
| tion Of his learned book in the Paris
libraries before the war, one day re-
marked, II never would have thought
your Paris cabmen cared so little for
money. 1 had one all the morning,
and when ] paid him I threw in two
cents for tip and he threw it back"
These are the two extremes. An
old waiter in the expensive Hotel
Quirinal at Rome told me: "Ameri-
| cans often give big tips. but they are
! SO irregular that we prefer European
! guests, who may give less but re-
| member every one who has waited on
Them MY boots boy at the Hotel
Evening star., 1922-03-19
Origin of Mine Gas.

IN interesting suggestion has been
"A offered concerning the source of
the explosive gases in coal mines and
the cause of their variation in
quantity. In mining districts, 1t is
pointed out, the eartR's crust is al
ways on the move, owing to the ad-
vance Of the workings. Both, above
and below the seam that is being
worked the rock strata are strained
and rent by the removal of their sup
port. Thus assures are formed, and
the imprisoned gas finds a way of
escape into the galleries. Before it's
liberation it is probable that the fire.
damp 10 under considerable pressure
in it's rocky prison.
Evening star., 1922-03-19

g TERLING HELLO. The Sunday Stars
~ Special Correspondent. Writing From
the Riviera. Tells the Stranse Story of An
American Millionaire-The Two Lads From
Amsterdam and Their Jewels-A Piano
Teacher, With Only Single Five-Franc
Piece. Wins Thousands-The British Cap
tain. and the Officer of Warship Who Threat
ened to Blow the Gambling Casino to Bits.
Evening star., 1922-03-19

oho oH lHSHu, nc Sdiu, dS even money
on the simple chances if you have the
luck to do it-and IL you haven't
you can't win anywhere
He put 100 francs on the last dozen,
1t won. He let his 500 francs lie
and won again. It was the start Of
long series Of similar lucky plays,
which in a week put 46o, 900 francs in
his pocket.
He had 1t safe in Cox's Bank and
bought a circular tour of the Medit-
erranean on the Cunard line, whose
big transatlantic boats stop at Mo-
naco. Here was a man who had won
out. He was cool. tranquil. had ar
ranged everything. He had bought
letter of credit and (not to waste
too much on his trip) left 250,000
francs at Coxs at 2la per cent, pend
ing the purchase Of French war bonds
or whatever.
The day before the Caronia was
due at Monaco, the captain stood
himself a farewell dinner at the Ho-
tel de Paris. Now. nothing starts up
optimism like a good dinner at the
Hotel de Paris, and the captain. who
was leaving in the morning, felt so
kindly disposed to the casino that he
was willing to lose 100 francs or SO
to say goodbye.
Can you guess what happened!
Just like Nine. Louise? Not SO. The
captain lost his cash. He negotiated
and lost his s5o. 900 francs in bank.
And, by Jove," he said, AZ he
rushed to the boat, "the letter Of
credit would have gone but for this
bally good old packet. Me for
Egypt"
WHERE such masses play con-
w tinually at public tables there
are naturally great quantities Of win
ners as we'll as losers. But the WIN
ners are talked about and the losers
forgotten. The most recent case OF
bad luck at the casino Of Nice In
wolves the hazards of the Russian
revolution and the solidarity OF in
ternational nobility.
A big Nice hotel complained to the
MAGISTRATE that a man calling him.
self Lord Wellesley the family OF
the Duke of Wellington had run up
a large bill and professed to be un-
able to pay To the Judge he ex-
planned himself Al follows:
"It is true that I am not Lord
wellesley" he said. but my mother
was the daughter of the late peer dt
that name. am Prince obclensky
Of Russia, and this name and title
are on all my visiting cards. but you
can understand why. In the present
condition Of Russian mobiles. whom
the bolshevists oblige to live In exile.
I did not care to register under my
own title.
"Durine the war;" he continued. Il
served at the front with the British
army until I was sent to a London
hospital, which was not able to
leave until 1920. Since then my
mother has been able to give me
is .oso francs q year. It II not much,
and 10 I came to Nice with my years
allowance, which had Just recsived,
and 10000 francs other money from
tho sale OF certain jewels to try to
better my fortunes at the public
gambling tables. I am not spend
thrift, and when I arrived here had
$4,000 francs cash.
.aThe casino has taken it ALL" hi
concluded. Some of my friends here
encouraged me to continue by prom
Using to lend me money, should need
1t, until fortune should turn. Here
are their names"
But the magistrate tried in vain tt
ind any enc among those feiends whs